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Yakima Valley COG highlights crime lab startup, housing repairs and regional transportation in 2024 report to Sunnyside council
Summary
Raquel Ferrell Crowley, deputy director of the Yakima Valley Conference of Governments, reviewed YVCOG's 2024 activities for Sunnyside, emphasizing the first full year of operations at the Yakima Valley crime lab, housing repair and homeownership grants, and transportation planning and federal funding allocations.
Raquel Ferrell Crowley, deputy director of the Yakima Valley Conference of Governments, told the Sunnyside City Council on April 7 that YVCOG's 2024 work focused on public safety, housing repairs and regional transportation planning.
The presentation outlined the crime lab's first full year of operation, where staff reported faster ballistics turnarounds using the NIBIN system and expanded DNA and cell-phone extraction support for regional law enforcement. "The turnaround time that we have now with our NIBIN was within 3 and a half days," Crowley said, and law enforcement can get results "within 3 to 5 hours" in some cases. Crowley said the crime lab is…
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