Despite claiming to clear the backlog, some states had hundreds of untested kits in their crime labs.

Rape kit crime lab backlogs from states that responded to records requests and announced clearing their backlogs, 2018-2022

Iowa data represents all untested kits in the crime lab. In other states, data includes untested kits that were in the crime lab for 30+ days.
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