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HFSC outlines upcoming accreditation surveillance, disclosures and training issues
Summary
HFSC presented an accreditation update, including a planned July surveillance assessment, two disclosures reviewed by the Texas Forensic Science Commission (a blind sample CODIS upload and unsupervised CSI trainee casework), and corrective actions; the trainee is no longer employed.
HFSC’s quality and accreditation update to the board covered external audits, recent disclosures and internal changes to prevent recurrence.
The board heard that an A2LA (or equivalent) desk audit — described as a “surveillance assessment without witnessing” — will occur the week of July 7–11 and that HFSC expects a full reassessment next year. The surveillance assessment will focus on lab‑wide systems such as internal audits, management review and the performance‑monitoring…
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