Auditor General DePasquale hails 90 percent reduction in rape-kit testing backlog since 2016

The backlog of untested rape kits in Pennsylvania has dropped nearly 90 percent in three years, state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said on Thursday.During a press conference at the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape offices in Harrisburg, DePasquale said there had been “tremendous progress” on decreasing the number of untested kits from 3,217 in his initial 2016 [...]