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Committee approves forwarding OCME's toxicology grant ordinance to accept state funds for new testing methods
Summary
The GAO Committee recommended forwarding an ordinance to authorize the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to accept a California Department of Public Health grant to fund a forensic toxicologist and new methods to detect novel opioids; presenters said OCME has not yet accepted funds and will proceed only if the ordinance is approved.
The Government Audit & Oversight Committee considered Item 2, an ordinance described in the packet as retroactively authorizing the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) to accept and expand a grant from the California Department of Public Health Substance and Addiction Prevention Branch and to authorize an additional forensic toxicologist position for work through…
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