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GBI outlines crime‑lab hiring and backlog relief plans amid toxicology delays
Summary
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation told lawmakers it is expanding forensic positions and contracts to reduce backlogs, boost autopsy capacity and add digital‑forensics and threat‑analysis staff; toxicology turnaround and sexual‑assault kit processing remain areas of concern.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) urged the House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee to fund lab equipment contracts, digital‑forensics investigators and additional specialists to help reduce longstanding backlogs in drug chemistry, toxicology and other forensic work.
GBI Director Chris Hosey told the committee that service contracts for laboratory instrumentation have risen roughly 18% since FY2022 and that maintaining those service agreements reduces downtime and helps with backlog management. GBI proposed funding for contract increases, added…
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