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‘We’re sorry we let you down.’ New Washington law aims to eliminate rape kit backlog

Austin Jenkins

Washington state Rep. Tina Orwall, D-Des Moines, still remembers the day in 2014 that she toured a police evidence facility and saw stacks of white boxes…