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Forensic Science Commission forms statewide working group to guide Rapid DNA use and licensing
Summary
The Texas Forensic Science Commission directed staff to assemble a statewide working group to develop criteria for a Rapid DNA operator licensing program and to coordinate partnerships between law enforcement and accredited labs after the FBI cleared limited CODIS access for Rapid DNA results.
The Texas Forensic Science Commission on Jan. 31 directed staff to form a statewide working group to recommend criteria for a Rapid DNA operator licensing program and to study how law enforcement partnerships with accredited laboratories will work now that the FBI will permit Rapid DNA results to be submitted to CODIS under certain conditions.
Commission staff told members that the FBI’s updated quality assurance standards will, beginning this year, allow results from Rapid DNA instruments to be entered into CODIS only when a law-enforcement operator’s work is incorporated under the quality system of an accredited…
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