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Where's the money to test backlog of rape kits, Josh Stein asks lawmakers

May 30, 2018
News & Observer
By
Anne Blythe

In February, Stein announced that a statewide inventory revealed 15,160 untested rape kits. That backlog prompted him to seek $2 million from lawmakers this year to begin the outsourcing of testing of 2,800 of those kits containing DNA samples and other evidence collected during medical procedures conducted after attacks.

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