> Advocate recounts ordeal after Indiana lawmakers strip funding to process rape kit backlog
Advocate recounts ordeal after Indiana lawmakers strip funding to process rape kit backlog
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It’s been just a week since Indiana lawmakers passed a new two-year budget, but reaction continues about some of the items that won’t see any state money this time around.
Last-minute decisions about what made it into the final version of the budget were impacted by a projected $2 billion revenue shortfall that lawmakers learned about in the final week of the legislative session. That left them scrambling to figure out what expenditures stayed in the budget and which ones came out.
One that didn’t make it, money to address Indiana’s backlog of untested rape kits.
MORE: https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/kidnapped-and-strangled-advocate-recounts-ordeal-after-indiana-lawmakers-strip-funding-to-process-rape-kit-backlog-sexual-assault-kuiper/531-9f82adcd-1c7a-4c2d-97cc-a2d5cbda8a51