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	Oversight of crime-lab staff has often been lax
		Crime lab officials say these are isolated incidents that don't reflect the high-quality work done by their 120 employees on thousands of cases a year, despite caseload and budget pressures.
		The crime labs' habit of destroying erroneous draft reports was "chilling" and raises the possibility of wrongful convictions, she said.
		Lab officials decided to review his work after Melnikoff was accused of helping wrongfully convict a Montana man of rape based on erroneous hair-analysis work he did for that state's lab in the 1980s.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/183203_crimelab23.html (4362 words)

	SJCSO Crime Lab/Scene Technician
		Crime scene reconstruction is an important responsibility of the crime lab technician.
		Crime scene reconstruction is the use of scientific methods, physical evidence, deductive reasoning and their interrelationships to gain explicit knowledge of the series of events that surround the commission of a crime.
		The Sheriff's Office detective assigned to the crime lab is available to be dispatched to crime scenes and is an integral part of the Sheriff's Office's commitment to provide experienced and professional staff to the citizens of San Juan County.
	www.sjcso.com /Divisions/Investigations/CrimeLab_SceneTech.htm (357 words)

	Crime lab defends itself, analyst -- chicagotribune.com
		The lawsuit contends Fish, then a laboratory analyst in the Chicago police crime lab, conducted blood tests on semen recovered from a rape victim and determined Willis was excluded as the source, according to her handwritten notes about the testing.
		Nolen said the Illinois police crime lab system, which encompasses the Chicago lab and seven other labs throughout the state, is the third largest in the world, trailing only the FBI laboratory and the Forensic Sciences Services lab in the United Kingdom.
		He said the lab consistently has been accredited by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors and that quality assurance officials conduct hundreds of internal tests and audits to ensure test results are accurate.
	www.chicagotribune.com /news/specials/chi-010720roscetti,0,5260178.story?coll=chi-newsspecials-utl (713 words)

	Crime lab backlogs extend beyond DNA
		Nationwide, crime labs had a median backlog of 646 requests – including DNA – at the end of 2002, according to a census by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
		Criminal justice experts warn crime lab backlogs are costly, keeping prisoners behind bars for months before their cases come up for trial and putting pressure on labs to work more quickly – increasing the likelihood of errors.
		Crime lab errors have occurred in several states, including Texas, where the Houston Police Department’s lab was found in 2002 to have badly undertrained staff and a leaky roof that could have contaminated evidence.
	www.stateline.org /live/details/story?contentId=137205 (966 words)

	LSP - Support, Security, Safety, and Communications - Crime Lab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The State Crime Laboratory is one of a select few labs in the country to be accredited on its very first inspection by the American Society of Crime Lab Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD/LAB).
		The Crime Laboratory was officially accredited on May 5, 2000 in the areas of controlled substances, toxicology, trace evidence, seology and firearms/toolmark identification.
		The Forensic DNA Analysis section of the Crime Lab analyzes biological material found at a crime scene or associated with a criminal investigation and attempts to include or exclude potential suspects or victims as the source of the biological material.
	www.lsp.org /crimelab.html (2604 words)

	Crime Lab Event
		This photo was shot Oct. 18, 2002 of the west entrance of the new crime lab at Fresno State.
		The $11.4 million crime lab now under construction is a state-of-the-art facility that will provide law enforcement agencies in seven counties with the forensic tools they need to solve crimes.
		One of 11 Department of Justice labs in the state, the lab collects and analyzes criminal evidence for law enforcement agencies in the seven counties.
	www.fresnostatenews.com /2002/April/CrimeLab.html (915 words)

	Los Angeles County Deserves State-Of-The-Art Crime Lab
		With vision and proper planning, Britain built sophisticated crime labs and created a national DNA database and began doing "cold hits," checking every DNA sample taken at crime scenes against their databases of felons and parolees to find matches.
		Unfortunately, crime fighting will not make a quantum leap forward unless the proposed $96 million Regional Forensic Crime Lab is transformed into a truly visionary and collaborative project.
		Key crime lab customers, such as the District Attorney’s Office, municipal prosecutors and the 46 police agencies serving nearly one-third of the county’s residents must be meaningfully included in determining the final scope of any new county crime lab.
	da.co.la.ca.us /oped/crimelab.htm (758 words)

	Texas Department of Public Safety - Courtesy, Service, Protection
		The crime lab keeps abreast of the latest techniques in these areas in order to provide timely and accurate results to law enforcement agencies requesting assistance.
		Crime lab analysts (called Forensic Scientists by job title) assist peace officers with crime scene investigations, instruct at peace officer training seminars, analyze physical evidence in criminal cases, and often present results of analyses in courtroom testimony.
		Since 1996 the Crime Laboratory Service has received federal funds to enhance DNA examination of evidence in criminal cases and to enhance the utilization of the Convicted Sex Offender DNA Database (CODIS) in solving crimes in which biological evidence is collected.
	www.txdps.state.tx.us /criminal_law_enforcement/crime_laboratory/index.htm (2222 words)

	Welcome to the Washoe County Sheriff's Office, www.washoesheriff.com, Nevada Law Enforcement.
		Commander Means is an Advisory Board Member of the Governors Committee for High Technology Crime, is a member of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors and serves on that International Organization’s Ethics Committee, is a member of the California Laboratory Directors Association and the California and the International Homicide Investigators Associations.
		Being one of only two crime laboratories in the state of Nevada, the Washoe County Forensic Science Division – Crime Lab provides forensic services to local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies in 14 of the 17 Nevada counties.
		The Crime Lab Division is a full-service forensic laboratory supervised by a Commander and staffed by more than 30 individuals in sworn and civilian capacities.
	www.washoesheriff.com /crime-lab-main.htm (1405 words)

	IPRT Scientists Lend Helping Hand to Iowa Crime Lab
		IPRT's work with the Iowa crime lab is part of its broader goal of establishing a regional forensics support and research facility at the university.
		In their first project with the Iowa crime lab, IPRT researchers are developing an improved fingerprint development chamber that would provide greater control in detecting and receiving fingerprints from crime-scene evidence.
		Coldiron said IPRT's initial work with the Iowa crime lab reinforces her belief that Iowa and surrounding states would benefit from the establishment of a forensics research and support facility that could develop new techniques and equipment.
	www.iprt.ameslab.gov /releases2000/iprt_crimelab.html (973 words)

	Henderson Crime Lab - Forensic Science Center Fundraising Project - FAQs
		A forensic crime lab is a common term for a facility where personnel process physical evidence related to crimes and crime scenes.
		Without a fully-staffed crime lab, not all potential evidence can be recovered, some evidence becomes unusable, many cases are not prosecuted, and numerous cases remain unsolved.
		Both labs have huge backlogs in forensic evidence processing, and neither has sufficient manpower or the equipment required to process all of the evidence recovered throughout the State.
	www.hendersoncrimelab.com /FAQs.html (2464 words)

	All about Crime Scene Analysis by Katherine Ramsland
		What goes on in a crime scene laboratory is known as criminalistics, which is the collection and analysis of physical evidence.
		Crime labs operate at federal, state, county and municipal levels.
		A full service crime lab for a large city would include an evidence collection unit that is trained in what to look for and how to collect and preserve evidence to avoid corruption.
	www.crimelibrary.com /criminal_mind/forensics/crimescene/5.html (1133 words)

	Macon Police Department, GA: Crime Lab
		The Macon Police Department Crime Lab is located in the same building that houses the 2nd precinct, Area I Command and the Drug Task Force.
		One sergeant, three crime scene technicians, an AFIS Coordinator, and an evidence clerk make up the staff of the Macon Police Crime Lab.The three technicians are required to be on standby after hours.
		Crime Lab technicians respond to all major crimes to process the crime scene and gather evidence.
	www.maconpd.com /support/crimelab.asp (205 words)

	Science News for Kids: Feature: Crime Lab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		To tackle problems like these, researchers in Tennessee turn to a unique outdoor lab often called the "body farm." A fence surrounds the 2-acre plot of land, which is hilly and full of trees.
		Not far from the body farm, in a lab at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, forensic anthropologist Richard Jantz stores a vast set of human skeletons.
		Strangely enough, his lab is tucked beneath UT's football stadium, which holds as many as 107,000 spectators at each game.
	www.sciencenewsforkids.org /articles/20041215/Feature1.asp (1466 words)

	Mesa Police Department Crime Laboratory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Mesa Police Department Crime Laboratory was established in 1980 as a one-person operation.
		Mesa was one of the first crime laboratories in the nation, and the first in Arizona, to realize the significant productivity gains in drug analyses by employing an automatic sampling device on our GC/MS system.
		Mesa was instrumental in the development of a county-wide program in which specially trained officers and crime scene technician's reports are used to speed the adjudication of cases involving small amounts of marijuana.
	www.cityofmesa.org /police/forensic_services/crime_lab.asp (662 words)

	Douglas County Sheriff \| Investigations \| Crime Lab
		Our crime lab is dedicated to providing the entire county and criminal justice community the most scientifically advanced and technologically proficient investigative capabilities available to date.
		Crime Scene Investigators are responsible for responding to all major crime scenes to evaluate, process, photograph, document, collect and preserve evidence.
		In processing crime scenes, crime lab personnel, along with investigators, respond to crime scenes to collect and preserve physical evidence for future evaluation and examination.
	www.dcsheriff.net /investigations/Crime_Lab.html (498 words)

	Crime Lab
		The Crime Lab provides Forensic Biology evidence examinations for the officers of the Anne Arundel County Police Department, and CDS evidence examinations for both the County Police and the Annapolis City Police Departments.
		In June 2001, after a comprehensive multi-day inspection, the Crime Lab was found to have successfully completed all requirements for ASCLD/LAB® accreditation of the Controlled Dangerous Substances (CDS) Unit and the Serology Section of the Forensic Biology Unit.
		In October 2002, at the end of extensive validation work on the latest DNA technology, the Lab’s DNA Section completed a rigorous four-day inspection and was found to be in compliance with the ASCLD/LAB® criteria required for accreditation, and thus, was awarded accreditation in forensic DNA analysis.
	www.aacounty.org /Police/crimeLab.cfm (356 words)

	Pasadena Police Department Regional Crime Lab
		Any evidence used in a crime involving possession, use, or sale of controlled substance must be identified as a prohibited drug to establish that a crime was committed.
		Selected Forensic Chemists from the crime laboratory are on call 24 hours a day to assist the Department with crime scene investigation and reconstruct the events that occurred at the scene.
		Upon request, the Crime Laboratory trains criminal justice agencies in a number of areas: crime scene investigation, crime laboratory services, controlled substances, sexual assault evidence, DNA evidence recognition and collection, Fluorescein, physical evidence recognition and handling, rape evidence collection to hospital emergency room persons, Intoxilyzer Operator, and toxicology.
	www.ci.pasadena.tx.us /police/support/crimelab.htm (896 words)

	Cops in lab coats
		Certainly, crime labs are touted as impartial, scientific means of finding the truth.
		A final means to make sure that crime labs do their work honestly and intelligently is accreditation from the American Society of Crime Lab Directors.
		That's the estimate of Robert Conley, director of the American Society of Crime Lab Directors Accreditation Board -- a separate group established by the Society.
	whyfiles.org /133crime_lab/5.html (679 words)

	North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation
		The Lab Division is supervised by Assistant Director Jerry Richardson.
		Troy Hamlin is the Deputy Assistant Director for the Crime Laboratory Division.
		The SBI Crime Laboratory initially met the accreditation criteria in 1988 and is reaccredited every five years with a full review of the laboratory including an on site inspection of the forensic disciplines.
	www.ncsbi.gov /offices/offices_crimelab.jsp (537 words)

	Amazon.com: Crime Lab: A Guide for Nonscientists: Books: John Houde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is true that the FBI lab has come under more fire lately for mistakes, as should other labs if they do not do their job right.
		Lab work, whether for medical reasons or criminalists, can literally mean life-or-death, and it would be foolish to allow incompetence in either areas to flourish.
		Crime Lab: A Guide for Nonscientists by John Houde accurately and thoroughly depicts what criminalists encounter in their profession.
	www.amazon.com /Crime-Lab-Nonscientists-John-Houde/dp/096582862X (1863 words)

	The Crime lab Prototype
		The "Crime lab" is an individualised laboratory program where the participant have the opportunity to use chemical, biochemical and technological methods to performe a crime detection.
		The crime is a "hit and run case" very close to reality.
		The following laboratory work closely follows the professional procedures used by the police laboratory and other specialist labs in universities, hospitals, etc. In the end of the lab session the traces are evaluated.
	www.chemforlife.org /virtual_gallery/crime_lab/default.htm (223 words)

	San Diego Sheriff's Crime Lab
		The CSI Section is responsible for examining the scene of a crime, documenting the conditions present, and providing investigators, attorneys and ultimately the jury, with an accurate depiction of the locations and relationships of items located within the scene.
		Crime Scene Investigators preserve and collect the items deemed potential evidence, as well as process the items of evidence that are not removable from the scene.
		These investigators deliver the evidence to the crime lab for forensic examination, and then prepare a report detailing the actions taken at the crime scene.
	www.sdsheriff.net /crimelab/csi.html (293 words)

	Arkansas State Crime Laboratory
		The Arkansas State Crime Lab is proud to announce the opening of the Digital Evidence section.
		The Arkansas State Crime Laboratory at Little Rock and its regional drug lab at Hope have recently attained the prestigious accreditation awarded by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Laboratory Accreditation Board.
		While it is the first instance of the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory being accredited by the national organization, only 307 other crime laboratories across the United States and world meet or exceed the rigorous principles and criteria developed by the ASCLD/LAB.
	www.state.ar.us /crimelab (366 words)

	FDLE Crime Laboratory Services
		Crime laboratory services are available to all local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in Florida for the purpose of rendering assistance in criminal investigations and judicial proceedings, to include 24-hour crime scene assistance
		The FDLE Crime Laboratory System is committed to the highest standards of quality laboratory analysis of evidence.
		ASCLD / LAB accreditation reflects adherence to nationally recognized management and scientific procedures for the operation of a Forensic Science Crime Laboratory.
	www.fdle.state.fl.us /CrimeLab (269 words)

	Forensic Science Division - State Crime Lab - MT Dept of Justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The state's crime lab in Missoula provides scientific and technical support to Montana's law enforcement community.
		Breath Alcohol: The lab maintains and certifies breath-testing instruments used to detect the presence of alcohol in DUI cases.
		The lab does not become involved in a criminal investigation until it is asked by a state agency or by a state, local or other type of law enforcement agency.
	www.doj.state.mt.us /department/forensicsciencedivision.asp (478 words)

	ASCLD/LAB
		American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors / Laboratory Accreditation Board
		ASCLD/LAB is currently accepting applications for the position of Proficiency Test Program Manager.
		If you plan to send a designee, please be sure to advise the ASCLD/LAB Executive Director in writing.
	www.ascld-lab.org (190 words)

	Seized funds to finance crime lab
		Tucson will receive a new state crime lab soon, thanks in part to $17.7 million seized from a company that specialized in the sale of bogus body-enhancement supplements.
		Arizona DPS is among a handful of departments nationwide at the forefront of forensic DNA analysis and has perfected a procedure for the recovery of DNA from bones.
		Completion of the crime lab is expected in January 2009.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/local/articles/1228crimelab1228.html (247 words)

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