A new law will require New York state law enforcement agencies to inventory their backlog of untested “rape kit” evidence by March 1 and then complete the testing.
The law, which also requires newly obtained rape-kit evidence to be processed within 90 days, aims to eradicate a state backlog of tens of thousands of rape kits that have never been processed by forensic police labs, said Kemp Hannon, a Republican state senator from Nassau County who helped sponsor the bill and, in an interview on Monday, said he was its primary author.
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