The City of Phoenix has approved more than $3 million in additional funding to help outsource the testing of backlogged DNA rape kits in the city.
As ABC15 reported earlier this month, the Phoenix Police Department said it had 835 rape kits waiting to be tested as of July 31, up from the 771 untested it reported in May. Of those DNA kits, 533 remained with Phoenix police while 282 of them had been submitted to an outsourced laboratory but had not been tested.
The measure approves $3.4 million in"additional expenditures" added to an existing $815,000 that had previously been approved for these contracts. The contracts also include testing DNA evidence in other criminal investigations that do not necessarily include sexual assaults. “It’s concerning. I wouldn’t downplay it,” Mitchell said in May 2023. “That’s really the bottom line is there is a risk of re-offense.”
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