Wisconsin lawmakers are looking to set a running-clock on sexual assault kits in the state.
The Senate Committee on Public Safety will hold a hearing today on a plan that would require the state crime lab to begin working on a DNA kit within five days, and finish testing the kit within two months, The legislation comes after Wisconsin’s years-long backlog of old sexual assault kits was finally tested a few years back. Wisconsin’s attorney general says in order to test the kits within two months he will need to hire more people at the state crime lab.
