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SFPD: new victim-notification card, ordered pickups and vendor help have 'virtually eliminated' DNA backlog
Summary
Captain Donna Meixner told commissioners the lab now has "virtually no backlog," citing a new victim 'bill of rights' card, revised pickup orders (72-hour hospital collection), prioritization of stranger-suspect (ASAP) cases typically begun within 24 hours, and a SharePoint tracking spreadsheet.
Captain Donna Meixner, head of the SFPD forensic services division, told the Police Commission on March 30 that the department has implemented multiple protocols intended to eliminate the DNA testing backlog and comply with recently enacted local requirements.
'Since I last addressed this commission last year, we have implemented several protocols to virtually eliminate any backlogs in our DNA testing,' Meixner said. She described auditing the vendor laboratory used for overflow work, drafting technical specifications for vendor work, and sending overflow cases to the vendor when in-house analysts are at capacity.
Meixner said analysts were working roughly 101 cases in-house and the vendor lab had 123 overflow cases. The department has hired or is hiring additional DNA analysts and…
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