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York County coroner asks council to fund evidence technician as caseload and evidence volumes grow
Summary
Coroner Sabrina Gast asked the council to reconsider management's opposition and fund a full-time evidence technician to manage a growing volume of biological materials, medications and chain-of-custody work the office is currently assigning to deputies.
Sabrina Gast, York County coroner, urged the council to fund a full-time evidence technician, saying the office'which handles death investigations countywide'is increasingly strained by high case counts and large volumes of collected evidence.
Gast told council that about 65% of stored material in the office'including tissue samples and blood cards for DNA'is biological material that must be preserved and inventoried. She said staff counted 62,588 dosages of collected pills between Jan. 1 and April 30, and the count rose to 76,487 pills two weeks…
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