New Orleans police now say that only about half of more than 400 untested rape kits may need testing.
Police Superintendent Michael Harrison said over the weekend that the department is storing 220 of 429 kits. Most of the stored kits are from people who got tested by medical personnel but declined to press charges.
The untested rape kits were disclosed during a New Orleans City Council hearing last week on failings in the department's handling of rape and child abuse cases.
In November, a city inspector general's report found five detectives in the sex crimes unit failed to substantially investigate more than 1,000 sex crimes and child abuse cases between 2011 and 2013.