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HPD Crime Lab Seeks Funding for Outside Review

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"HPD's crime lab asks for $1.25 million," is the report in today's Houston Chronicle.The Houston Police Department is asking City Council to approve $1.25 million to hire outside scientists to review all tests done by the recently reopened DNA crime lab. Limited DNA testing resumed at the crime lab in July, but the department still outsources the majority of tests to a Dallas firm. The two consultants, Dr. Charlotte J. Word and Dr. Robin W. Cotton, would review every case involving DNA testing and check the processes and conclusions reached by HPD's in-house laboratory, according to Dr. Laura Gahn, the DNA lab's technical director. The hiring of independent, outside consultants was a recommendation of the multi-year, $5.3 million probe of HPD's troubled crime lab, completed in 2007...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 30, 2008 (boomark / email).