Wisconsin lawmakers are looking to take the next step to make sure there’s never a backlog of untested sexual assault kits ever again.
An Assembly panel yesterday heard from lawmakers and advocates who want a new law that sets timelines for how the kits are to be handled and processed. The plan would require hospitals to notify police within 24 hours of collecting DNA and would require police to send that kit to the state crime lab within 14 days. It comes after the attorney general found six-thousand untested kits back in 2014. The plan has already passed the Wisconsin Senate.
