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County forensic director warns new building needed to address staffing and backlog ceiling
Summary
Dr. Shelly Stedman told commissioners that without additional space and infrastructure the center cannot add personnel or instrumentation to cut backlogs; she said relocation and remodeling may cause temporary service delays but are necessary to fix capacity limits that affect investigations and prosecutions.
Dr. Shelly Stedman said the forensic center has reached a capacity ceiling: limited office and bench space, electrical constraints and scattered specimen storage prevent the addition of staff and modern instruments needed to reduce turnaround times.
"I'm not gonna be so brazen as to stand up here and tell you that we are magically gonna alleviate all of our backlogs when we get this building because that's simply not true," Stedman said, warning that relocation and remodeling will cause short-term service disruption but arguing that without expansion the center has no path to meaningful long-term improvements.
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