Ohio

"CSI"-Like Office Coming to Cleveland by 2011

By Cleveland Law Library

By 2011, Cleveland will have its own "CSI"-like crime lab. Through a joint venture between the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor, the Ohio Attorney General, the Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland State University, Cleveland will soon have a lab that can analyze DNA and crime scene evidence, including tissue samples, firearms, fingerprints, and fluids. According to the Plain Dealer, officials are still looking at sites, but predictions estimate that the project could cost $60 million and employ about 1,000 individuals. This new lab would potentially replace BCI's lab in Richfield, which the paper says Attorney General Dann might use as a police training facility.

Full post as published by Cleveland Law Library Weblog on April 18, 2008 (boomark / email).