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Committee adds state drug director to list of officials who may receive crime‑lab toxicology reports
Summary
The committee approved House Bill 18‑43 to allow the state drug director to receive toxicology reports from the state crime lab to help map overdose patterns across jurisdictions; lawmakers discussed confidentiality and FOIA exceptions.
The Senate committee approved House Bill 18‑43 to add the state drug director to the list of officials who may receive toxicology reports from the state crime lab. Secretary Mike Hager and other witnesses told the committee the change is intended to let the drug director build a cross‑jurisdictional map of overdose cases to identify distribution patterns and potential dealers.
“It's allowing us again to isolate where these areas are coming from,” said Mike Hager, secretary of the Department of Public Safety. He described…
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