The City of Austin has chosen to remove the troubled forensics laboratory from under the control of the Austin Police Department as part of its City-Community Reimagining Task Force.
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Establishing textile fiber links is only half the battle for forensic scientists working on criminal cases. What is equally, if not more, important, is to work out how the fibers actually got there in the first place.
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Usually, one match is not enough to point to a single person. However, this match had included another clue in their public database profile.
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The Department of Justice has awarded more than $1 million in forensic grants to help Wyoming officials protect citizens from dangerous drugs, sexual perpetrators and violent criminals.
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Two law enforcement agencies in Utah are looking to dispose of more than 300 guns accumulating in evidence storage that either went unclaimed or are no longer needed in criminal investigations.
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In a letter addressed to the forensic anthropology community, two university anthropologists call for an immediate moratorium on the use of morphoscopic cranial traits in the estimation of ancestry, claiming the traits are not grounded in science and only serve to promote the debunked biological race concept.
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During FY20, biology submissions were up by 9% from the previous fiscal year, and ISP completed nearly 16,000 biology assignments within the laboratory system, reducing that backlog by at least 30%.
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Jason Brooks has advanced training in forensic pathology and crime scene analysis, and he routinely assists law enforcement with animal cruelty investigations.
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Using a DNA sample extracted by DNA Labs International, Parabon produced Snapshot trait predictions for the unknown woman.
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Yansi Keim, a cyber forensics doctoral student at Purdue, shares her best advice, including her own professional cybersecurity recommendations and personal advice from her uncle.
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