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Watching the Crime Labs

By Steve Hall

The News & Observer of Raleigh, NC reports, "Forensic groups' ties raise concerns," by Joseph Neff and Mandy Locke.  Here's an extended excerpt: In a humble commercial strip mall in Johnston County, the nation's forensic science power players have built an empire.In a single office, callers can reach the nation's largest accreditation group for forensic laboratories - and a for-profit consulting agency that coaches those labs on how to pass accreditation. Callers can also contact a trade association for forensic lab directors and the chief national forensic science lobbying group that helps shape the future of the field.For some of the groups, correspondence is directed to suites that don't exist, but the mail ends up in the same office: headquarters for ASCLD-LAB, the accreditation group under scrutiny for missing problems at the State Bureau of Investigation...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 28, 2010 (boomark / email).