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Posted by: Barry Kolar on Oct 6, 2023

The state is making progress in reducing the backlog of untested rape kits, however, some say more progress is needed. ABC 24 reports that the state has cut the backlog in half, thanks to the hiring of 44 new crime lab scientists and the outsourcing of some tests to Florida. At the state lab in Jackson, staff has cut turnaround time from one year to 18 weeks. “We need these scientists to keep that turnaround time low,” State Sen. Brent Taylor, R-Memphis says, so that “we never get back in the situation we were in just a year ago.”