‘Just shocked’: Why Oregon lawmakers didn’t know about new backlog of untested rape kits

When Oregon State Police announced in 2018 that they had eliminated a massive backlog of unprocessed sexual assault evidence kits, officials celebrated ending a decades-old managerial and moral failure by police departments throughout the state. Travis Hampton, state police superintendent at the time, praised his agency’s forensic work and said…

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