Bexar County crime lab says staffing challenges have impacted work to clear sexual assault kit backlog

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Bexar County crime lab says staffing challenges have impacted work to clear sexual assault kit backlog
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The Bexar County crime lab's director says they have about seven month's worth of cases waiting to be tested.

The Bexar County Crime Lab needs help to clear its backlog of sexual assault kits, according to its director.– The Bexar County Crime Lab needs help to clear its backlog of sexual assault kits, according to its director.Dym said about 60% of the lab’s workload is focused on processing sexual assault kits.

Bexar County last year spent $167,000 to improve the capacity and processing time of sexual assault kits, which includes new automated machinery that can simultaneously extract DNA from samples in multiple cases in a matter of hours.

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