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Virginia DFS reports new central laboratory progress, staffing hires and plans to reduce DNA backlog
Summary
Department of Forensic Science Director Linda Jackson updated the Scientific Advisory Committee on central laboratory construction progress, new hires and pilot LIMS pre-log testing, new grants including a $2 million CBRE award for DNA, and plans to create a PERC processing unit and outsource selected non-person cases to reduce DNA turnaround times.
Director Linda Jackson told the Scientific Advisory Committee the Department of Forensic Science(DFS) is seeing steady progress on its new central laboratory and statewide operations hub, describing a three-story lab with a medical examiner wing and a penthouse for mechanical systems that is "starting to take shape." She said supervisors have toured the site and that drone footage shows construction advancing.
Jackson said DFS expanded trainings for attorneys and judges on breath-alcohol and toxicology testing and that the agency is close to rolling out pre-log functionality in its Forensic Advantage laboratory information management system after…
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