Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller has announced the release of a new software program, called Track-Kit, that allows the tracking of rape kits following an assault.

Miller says the state is clearing up a backlog of untested kits and this will ensure the backlog doesn’t happen again as there are an estimated 15-hundred users at medical facilities, law enforcement agencies, crime laboratories, and county attorney’s offices. Shannon Knudsen is a sexual assault nurse examiner with the Mid-Iowa Sexual Assault response team. She says the kits are important so victims have a way to keep up with the process.

The program provides a secure portal to track the progress of their kit through the collection and analysis process and also provides local sexual assault resources and contact information. The system allows survivors to contact law enforcement if they change their decision to participate in an investigation.