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YVCOG highlights crime-lab turnaround, transportation funding and housing assistance in 2024 report to Yakima council
Summary
Chris Weigenhagen, executive director of the Yakima Valley Council of Governments, presented YVCOG’s 2024 annual report to the Yakima City Council, noting faster local crime-lab processing, federal transportation awards, housing repair and down-payment programs, and planned workforce development efforts for 2025.
Chris Weigenhagen, executive director of the Yakima Valley Council of Governments, presented the agency’s 2024 annual report to the Yakima City Council on March 4, highlighting crime-lab capacity, regional transportation funding and housing programs.
Weigenhagen told the council the local crime lab has reduced turnaround time for NIBIN (ballistic-casing comparisons) to about 3½ days from submission to return, a change he said gives officers a “huge advantage” in investigations. YVCOG also is facilitating a rapid-DNA work group with multiple counties…
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