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FY19 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - Hennepin County, MN

Award Information

Awardee
Award #
2019-DN-BX-0104
Funding Category
Formula
Location
Congressional District
Status
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
Total funding (to date)
$199,888

Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2019, $199,888)

The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office Crime Laboratory (HCSOCL) proposes using this funding to support a 0.6 full time employee to complete validation and quality improvement projects in the laboratory so that casework analysts are not removed from casework to do these validation projects. Additional goals of this proposal include: continuing scientific education for the DNA staff, improve the labs capacity on challenging samples, focusing on the rapidly growing need to recover touch DNA from clothing, weapons and other porous items and obtaining DNA from calcified tissue.

NCA/NCF

Date Created: September 13, 2019