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  • Alabama’s Fingerprint Backlog
    The Press-Register newspaper in Mobile, Alabama has been running a superb series of stories about a backlog of over 1 million fingerprints in the state that have not been uploaded into the national fingerprint database. What makes the series stand above most about backlogs?  The paper considers  many ramifications of the fingerprint backlog, include others [...]

  • The National Academy of Science Study: One Year Later
    In February, 2009, the National Academy of Sciences published Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward. Have you read it yet?  It’s available online and can be read for FREE.  You can pay to download it all at once or read it free chapter by chapter online.  It is also available for [...]

  • California Publishes Crime Lab Study
    If you live in California and wonder about the status of crime labs in your state, you can get a great overview by downloading and reading the report published here: http://tinyurl.com/yl5evgq We’ll talk more about this report soon!

  • What we’re talking about
    Most of our posting time has been used to update the page, “What We’re Talking About Here.” Take a look!  Click here to get to the page.

  • While we’re working on an October post
    Please take time to check out The Death Quiz, the Backlog Quiz, and for some examples from recent news stories, What We’re Talking About Here.

  • The Backlog Quiz
    How much do you know about backlogs in forensic science labs in the U.S.?

  • Forensic Friday: The Death Quiz
    Have fun with forensic science -- the Crime Lab Project invites you to take Death Quiz #1! Coroners, Medical Examiners, autopsies, missing persons cases -- 25 questions to test what you know about this topics and death investigation in the United States. The first of our Forensic Fridays Series.

  • Welcome to the CLP Blog
    We’re getting ready for Forensic Fridays!  If you’d like to help out, just send a message to us at crimelabproject [@]  gmail.com — just delete all the extra spaces and characters in the e-mail address. If you don’t know anything about us, please visit our Web site at http://www.crimelabproject.com You can also follow us on [...]


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