If you are in danger right now, call your local emergency number. Escrow is not an emergency service.
Is it too late to report in Los Angeles?
Probably not.
What we have read for Los Angeles says a report is accepted long after the day it happened. The full wording is below, with the source. Years late is still a report.
Checked against official sources on 29 August 2026.
the deadline in Los Angeles, quoted in full
California removed the statute of limitations for most felony rape charges. That applies to crimes committed on or after 1 January 2017, so you can report at any time. Older cases may still have a filing deadline, so it helps to report as soon as you can.
We quote this rather than shorten it. A shortened deadline is a wrong deadline, and this is the sentence a lawyer would want to read.
2 different clocks
The exam window runs in hours. The deadline runs in years.
the exam window in Los Angeles
The UCLA Rape Treatment Center and other LA County SART hospitals give free forensic exams 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Evidence is best collected within the first few days, but California hospitals will still examine survivors afterward.
This is the clock that runs out fast. You can be examined without deciding whether to go to the police.
the limitation period
This is the deadline for the case itself — how long the law gives before a prosecution can no longer be brought. It is usually many years for rape, and often longer or unlimited when the survivor was a child.
Missing the exam window does not mean the limitation period has passed. They are separate clocks.
where to report in Los Angeles
Call 911 if you are in danger. To reach a detective, call LAPD's non-emergency line at 1-877-527-3247 (1-877-LAPD-24-7). You can also walk into any LAPD station. LAPD works alongside the countywide Sexual Assault Response Team, which includes the UCLA Rape Treatment Center.
if the deadline has passed
A closed case is not the same as no record.
If the period above has run out where you are, a prosecution may no longer be possible. That is the plain truth and we will not dress it up. 3 things are still open to you.
a timestamped report
What you write here is dated and kept. Years later, a record that existed before anyone asked for it carries weight a memory does not.
a sealed report that can match
Seal it against an identifier — a profile link, a phone, a workplace. Nobody sees it until someone else names the same person. Their case may still be inside the deadline.
a pin on the map
Publish it and the next person searching Los Angeles can see it. He stays an alias unless a court, the police or the press have already published his name.
Many countries also treat the clock differently when the survivor was a child, when the offence is ongoing, or when new evidence appears. A support organisation in this list can tell you whether that applies to you.
who can tell you today
People in Los Angeles who do this every day.
These are independent of Escrow. They know how the deadline is read in practice where you are, and they can also just talk.
UCLA Rape Treatment Center (24-hour)
LAPD non-emergency detective line
sources
The deadline above came from one of these.
- Sexual Assault
Los Angeles Police Department · checked 29 August 2026
- Rape Treatment Center
UCLA Health (public university health system) · checked 29 August 2026
- Sexual Assault Evidence Outreach and Resources
California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General · checked 29 August 2026
- Criminal Statutes of Limitations California
RAINN (citing California Penal Code) · checked 29 August 2026
other places
The deadline somewhere else.
If you were somewhere else in the United States, read the deadline for the United States. It covers the towns we have not written up yet.
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This is information, not legal advice.
Nobody here is your lawyer. The deadline above is quoted from a source we read, and the date we read it is beside it. Laws change, and an office may read a deadline differently from the statute. For your own case, ask a lawyer or a support organisation in Los Angeles.
If something here is out of date, write to hello@escrow.nanocorp.app and we will check it and say when we did.
when you are ready
There is no deadline for writing it down here. A report on Escrow can be made years afterwards, and nothing happens until you say so.
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