Orange County California Looking at Independent Forensics Agency

Orange County California is pick­ing up what I’ve been putting down. They are look­ing at either cre­at­ing a new, or mov­ing the cur­rent crime lab away from the police and pros­e­cu­tor, and make them their own agency. This move would be in com­pli­ance with the NAS report’s sug­ges­tion as a way to reduce institutional

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October 28th, 2009 | Tags: LinkedIn, NAS report, Orange County | Category: News Stories, Opinion | Leave a comment

Prosecutors Move To Seize Control of Crime Lab

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The Orange County Prosecutor’s Office move to wrest con­trol of the crime lab away from the sheriff’s depart­ment. While out­siders some­times point out that hav­ing a crime lab under the con­trol of a police agency can lead to lab staff being pres­sured to bias their opin­ions, or per­haps even those ana­lysts who seem

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December 15th, 2008 | Tags: crime lab, DNA, Forensic, LinkedIn, Orange County | Category: News Stories, Opinion | Leave a comment