As recently as 2018, there were more than 9,000 sexual assault kits that had not been tested.
of over 10,000 sexual assault kits has"effectively been eliminated," Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced in a press conference on Thursday.
Ferguson said the last of the backlogged kits were cleared from shelves and sent to labs for testing. Clearing the backlog and testing the kits havebut Ferguson said that number will grow over time. The kit testing has resulted in more than 2,100 hits in the national DNA database, known as CODIS. A"hit" is when a DNA sample matches a person or another case in the database, which generally consists of offenders.
“Effectively ending our sexual assault kit backlog is a historic step toward justice — but our work on behalf of survivors is not done,” Ferguson said. “Through this collective effort, we ensured that survivors’ voices are heard, reformed a broken system, improved testing times, and solved crimes. This success proves that government can solve big problems when we work together.
“We’ve come a long way to create a system that delivers justice for survivors whose sexual assault kits sat forgotten on shelves in evidence rooms across the state,” said state Rep. Tina Orwall, D-Des Moines, whose first bill to address this issue was introduced in 2015. “When I first started this work, I was shocked to learn that thousands of sexual assault kits remained untested.
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