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- The Slow but Steady March Towards a More Reliable Forensic Science, National Institute of Justice, 1/29/2023
- Internet evidence key, but not enough in no-body murder case, by Mark Pratt, AP, 1/27/2023
- Men imprisoned for murder say police illegally used Google to find their location data, by Jon Shuppe, NBC, 1/25/2023
- What Is Microstamping, and Can It Help Solve Shootings?, by Chip Brownlee, The Trace, 1/23/2023
- Colorado lawyers argue legality of Google ‘keyword warrants’, 1/13/2023
- Google Keyword-Search Warrants Questioned by Colorado Lawyers, by Julia Love, Bloomberg Businessweek, 1/12/2023
- How Police Actually Cracked the Idaho Killings Case, by Heather Tal Murphy, Slate, 1/10/2023
- Police are using DNA evidence in the Idaho case. Here are the potential pitfalls., by Miriam Aroni Krinsky and Rebecca Blair, NBC, 1/10/2023
- Here’s an Officer Who Might Have Actually ODed From Fentanyl Contact—but Not Because He Just Touched It, by Scott Shackford, Reason, 1/9/2023
- Government Snoops in Maine Caught Spying on Peaceful Americans, by J.D. Tuccille, Reason, 1/6/2023
- Innocent Black Man Jailed After Facial Recognition Got It Wrong, His Lawyer Says, by Thomas Germain, Gizmodo, 1/3/2023
- They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars., by Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 12/28/2022
- WSP: Regional crime lab’s proposed use of Rapid DNA has ‘considerable problems’, by Emily Goodell, Yakima News, 12/16/2022
- Queensland’s forensic DNA lab inquiry finds ‘serious’ failures reduced prospect of conviction, thousands of samples may be retested, by Rachel Riga, ABC News, 12/12/2022
- 4 analysts at Houston Forensic Science Center fired after starting own DNA company, officials say, by Miya Shay, ABC News, 12/12/2022
- DNA database mistake leads to Portland murder suspect, by Maxine Bernstein, Oregon Live, 12/10/2022
- The Slow but Steady March Towards a More Reliable Forensic Science, National Institute of Justice, 12/7/2022
- Fayetteville hosts first ShotSpotter community meeting, by Nick Sturdivant, 12/7/2022
- Under the microscope: Maryland high court considers limiting ballistics evidence used to link guns to shootings, by Alex Mann, Union-Bulletin, 12/4/2022
- ‘I Don’t Think Any New Law Will Fix This’: Can Legislation Repair D.C.’s Troubled Crime Lab?, by Alex Koma and Sloane Airey, Citypaper, 12/2/2022
- New bill would limit police use of DNA collected from newborn blood screening, by Dana Defilippo, New Jersey Monitor, 11/30/2022
- How Jessica Logan’s Call for Help Became Evidence Against Her, by Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 11/20/2022
- Durham’s ShotSpotter plans delayed again, WTVD, 11/14/2022
- Cops Might Already Have Your DNA, Without Your Consent, by Albert Fox Cahn and Ayesha Rasheed, Daily Beast, 11/14/2022
- Google reaches $392M settlement over location data, by Gabriel Tynes, Courthouse News Service, 11/14/2022
- Moving Away From Deception When Interrogating Young Suspects, by Hayley Cleary, PhD and David Thompson, Psychology Today, 11/11/2022
- Police Use DNA Phenotyping to Limit Pool of Suspects to 15,000, by Chloe Xiang, Vice, 11/10/2022
- The Problem With Forensic Sciences, by Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 11/8/2022
- This group has a shocking concussion rate. It’s not football players., by Rachel Ramirez, Luke Montgomery and Julianna Nemeth , Washington Post, 10/31/2022
- ‘Mass Surveillance’: Police Are Using DNA to Create Digital Images of Suspects That Haven’t Been Identified, by Nyamekye Daniel, Yahoo, 10/23/2022
- Federal Report Adds to the Evidence That Bitemark Analysis Is Nonsense, by J.D. Tuccille, Reason, 10/19/2022
- A star witness recanted. But Tasha Shelby is still imprisoned for “shaken baby syndrome” junk science, by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, The Appeal, 10/19/2022
- Yet another scientific body has debunked bitemark analysis. The courts still won’t care., by Radley Balko, The Watch, 10/18/2022
- What is Fog Reveal? A legal scholar explains the app some police forces are using to track people without a warrant, by Anne Toomey McKenna, The Conversation, 10/17/2022
- What happens when you donate your body to science, by Abby Ohlheiser, MIT Technology Review, 10/12/2022
- DNA is often used in solving crimes. But how does DNA profiling actually work?, by Adam Linacre, The Conversation, 10/11/2022
- Teeth marks convicted him, but the science didn’t hold up. 37 years later he’s still in an Alabama prison., by Amy Yurkanin, Alabama.com, 10/3/2022
- Why the ACLU of NJ says too much of how the NYPD uses facial recognition is shrouded in secrecy, by Nancy Solomon and Louis C. Hochman, Gothamist, 10/2/2022
- Making a Meltdown: What Role Did Federal Prosecutors Play in Unraveling D.C.’s Crime Lab?, by Alex Koma and Sloane Airey, 9/30/2022
- Op-Ed: Facial recognition technology victimizes people of color. It must be regulated, by Ted Lieu, Los Angeles Times, 9/29/2022
- Epic Massachusetts crime lab Scandal may involve even broader wrongdoing, judge says, by Maggie Mulvihill and Jon Schuppe, NBC, 9/22/2022
- Forensic lab staff stood down as thousands of Queensland DNA samples retested, The Guardian, 9/21/2022
- Crime lab mistakes man’s Tums for cocaine; Audit underway, by Jatara McGee, KTVZ, 9/21/2022
- Cold cases cracked by cellphones: How police are using geofence warrants to solve crimes, by Christopher Damien and Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 9/8/2022
- Study: Forensic Scientists are Whiter Than Communities They Serve, by TCR Staff, The Crime Report, 9/8/2022
- A Guide to All the (Technically) Legal Cannabinoids You Can Buy Right Now, by Hannah Docter-Loeb, Slate, 9/3/2022
- They Lost Their Pregnancies. Then Prosecutors Sent Them to Prison, by Cary Aspinwall, Brianna Bailey, and Amy Yurkanin, The Marshall Project, 9/2/2022
- Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’, by Garance Burke and Jason Dearen, AP, 9/1/2022
- Michigan State Police: 3,250 THC lab reports may be inaccurate, by AP, Click on Detroit, 8/31/2022
- What is Fog Data Science? Why is the Surveillance Company so Dangerous?, by Matthew Guariglia, Electronic Frontier Foundation, 8/31/2022
- In Studies of Forensic Errors, the Devil Is in the Details, by Jeff Kukucka, Ph.D., Psychology Today, 8/26/2022
- New LA Innocence Project, Funded By Exoneree, Will Partner With Forensic Scientists To Uncover Wrongful Convictions, by Taylor Walker, Witness LA, 8/23/2022
- Use of familial DNA in an investigation can be intrusive. But a middle ground is possible., by Nathan H. Lents, Think, 8/21/2022
- Police Used a Baby’s DNA to Investigate Its Father for a Crime, by Emily Mullin, Wired, 8/15/2022
- How Improper Drug Testing Punishes Minority Mothers and the Incarcerated, by Penny Loeb, The Crime Report, 8/5/2022
- New filing in Wilmington crime lab lawsuit alleges culture of gender bias at WPD, by Benjamin Schachtman, Michael Praats, WHQR, 8/2/2022
- A New Book Exposes the Junk Science That Leads to Wrongful Convictions. Its Unlikely Hero Is a Texan. , by Michael Hall, Texas Monthly, 8/1/2022
- A Judge Says Shaken-Baby Cases Rely on ‘Junk Science’, by C.J. Ciaramella, Reason, 8/1/2022
- Can the Constitution Protect Digital Policing?, by Eva Herscowitz, The Crime Report, 8/1/2022
- ShotSpotter held in contempt of court, by Matt Chapman and Jim Daley, Chicago Reader, 7/26/2022
- When the accused is just 18: How brain science complicates ‘adult’ criminal justice, by Michae Mroziak, NPR, 7/24/2022
- Lawsuit: Chicago police misused ShotSpotter in murder case, by Garance Burke and Michael Tarm, AP, 7/22/2022
- Can deleted text messages actually be retrieved?, by Ari Shapiro, Karen Zamora, Justine Kenin, NPR, 7/21/2022
- Her death remained a mystery for 46 years. Now, DNA evidence from a coffee cup at the airport led to an arrest, by Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 7/19/2022
- DHS spent millions on cellphone data to track Americans and foreigners inside and outside U.S., ACLU report says, by Julia Ainsley, NBC, 7/18/2022
- State to pay $7.5M to estate of North Carolina man over wrongful conviction, by AP, WLOS, 7/14/2022
- The Danger of License Plate Readers in Post-Roe America, by Thor Benson, Wired, 7/7/2022
- Cops Are Still Fainting When They Touch Fentanyl, by Dan McQuade, Defector, 7/5/2022
- Powerful keyword warrants face new challenge in deadly arson case, by Corin Faife, The Verge, 7/1/2022
- ‘This is the best lab on the planet’: Mayor unveils first-ever DNA gun crime lab, by Dean Moses, The Villager, 6/30/2022
- Where abortion is banned, someone’s phone activity could be used as criminal evidence, by Bobby Allyn, NPR, 6/30/2022
- Warrants Can Force Google To Look Through Your Search History–A Tragic Arson Case May Decide If That’s Constitutional, by Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 6/30/2022
- Savannah spends $489K on ShotSpotter but doesn’t keep data on effectiveness, by Jake Shore, The Current, 6/30/2022
- Judge: DC crime lab’s conduct ‘shameful,’ but murder case that exposed errors can continue, by Jack Moore, WTOP, 6/24/2022
- Faulty Forensic Tests on Newborns Send Women to Prison, The Crime Report, 6/23/2022
- The courts still haven’t figured out how to reconcile science with law, by Radley Balko, Washington Post, 6/21/2022
- Failed Autopsies, False Arrests: A Risk of Bias in Death Examinations, by Shaila Dewan, New York Times, 6/20/2022
- People who are ‘incredibly good’ at catching liars ‘on the spot’ do these 5 things, say top psychologists, by Eric Barker, CNBC, 6/20/2022
- The Shooter in the Video, by Pam Kelley, The Assembly, 6/16/2022
- Sweeping Legislation Aims to Ban the Sale of Location Data, Vice, 6/15/2022
- Houston cases impacted by DNA analyst’s ‘false testimony’ grows, by Ted Oberg, ABC News, 6/9/2022
- An easy win for criminal justice reform: Independent crime labs, by Michael Kusluski, The Hill, 6/3/2022
- Lawsuit claims authorities downplayed Wilmington crime lab issues, kept quiet about missing drugs, by Michael Praats and Ben Schachtman, WECT, 6/3/2022
- State to repay thousands of defendants who were convicted based on evidence analyzed by disgraced chemists, by Andrea Estes, Boston Globe, 6/1/2022
- A Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate, by Kashmir Hill, New York Times, 5/31/2022
- ‘We have to try something’: Durham police chief says ShotSpotter could address violent crime, by Crystal Price, CBS17, 5/27/2022
- Clearview AI settles suit and agrees to limit sales of facial recognition database, New York Times, 5/27/2022
- The Field of Firearms Forensics Is Flawed, by David L. Faigman, Nicholas Scurich, and Thomas D. Albright, Scientific American, 5/25/2022
- US surveillance of Americans must stop, by Elizabeth Goitein, The Hill, 5/14/2022
- The Bias Hunter, by Douglas Starr, Science, 5/12/2022
- Can Forensic Science be Trusted?, by Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic, 5/12/2022
- New York court halts family DNA searches for crime suspects, by Michael Sisak, AP, 5/6/2022
- An algorithm that screens for child neglect raises concerns, by Garance Burke and AP, 4/30/2022
- Judges deny innocence claims of four convicted in death of Chris Paul’s grandfather, by Michael Hewlett, Winston-Salem Journal, 4/28/2022
- Whistling past the graveyard: Why it’s so hard to rid the courts or junk science, by Jordan Smith, The Intercept, 4/24/2022
- ‘They were good guys.’ Jessicah Black recants testimony that led to murder conviction of five teenagers., by Michael Hewlett, Winston-Salem Journal, 4/22/2022
- No definitive evidence ever connected 5 teens to murder of Nathaniel Jones, attorneys argue in innocence hearing, by Michael Hewlett, Winston-Salem Journal, 4/19/2022
- John Oliver explains what really happens in police interrogations, and why you should always request a lawyer, by Peter Weber, The Week, 4/18/2022
- Fire Scientists Testify in Support of Claude Garrett’s Bid for Freedom, by Liliana Segura, The Intercept, 4/16/2022
- Google Location Data Tempts Police While Privacy Advocates Worry, by Andrea Vittorio, Bloomberg Law, 4/11/2022
- Faulty Police Field Tests Said This Trucker Was Carrying 700 Gallons of Meth. It Was Diesel., by C.J. Ciaramella, Reason, 4/8/2022
- Cold case arrest a testament to DNA technology and the tenacity of investigators, authorities say, by Michael Hewlett, Winston-Salem Journal, 4/7/2022
- Junk Science Has Taken Over Criminal Trials. Here’s What the Supreme Court Could Do About It., by Tim Requarth, Slate, 4/4/2022
- Too much Big Brother? Mobile gunshot detection initiative stirs government surveillance concerns, by John Sharpe, AL.com, 3/23/2022
- ‘Saving lives:’ Wake secures $1.5 million to build new DNA lab, emergency operations center, by Amanda Lamb and Lora Lavigne, WRAL, 3/22/2022
- Cellphone dragnets can help catch criminals. Judges say they can also violate constitutional rights., by Justin Jouvenal and Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 3/21/2022
- Who’s to blame for wrongful convictions? Accountability demands more than finger-pointing., by James M. Doyle, USA Today, 3/19/2022
- He Teaches Police “Witching” To Find Corpses. Experts Are Alarmed., by Rene Ebersole, The Marshall Project, 3/17/2022
- Duty to Correct, by Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith, The Intercept, 3/12/2022
- The Fourth Amendment and Geofence Warrants: A Critical Look at United States v. Chatrie, by Orin S. Kerr, The Volokh Conspiracy, 3/11/2022
- ANALYSIS: Say Goodbye to ‘Daubert Motion’, Hello to New Rule 702 (1), by Elizabeth Bernard, Bloomberg Law, 3/10/2022
- Private Tech Surveillance Companies are Taking over Prisons, by Nneka Ewulonu, The Appeal, 3/8/2022
- Cellphone dragnet used to find bank robbery suspect was unconstitutional, judge says, by Jon Schuppe, NBC, 3/7/2022
- License plate cameras help Garner police solve crimes, by Bryan Mims, WRAL, 3/7/2022
- The Hidden Role of Facial Recognition Tech in Many Arrests, by Khari Johnson, Wired, 3/7/2022
- How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence, by Garance Burke, Martha Mendoza, Juliet Linderman, and Michael Tarm, AP, 3/5/2022
- Caught on camera: This new tool is helping Greensboro police track criminals, by Kenwyn Caranna, Greensboro News & Record, 3/2/2022
- How Melissa Lucio Went From Abuse Survivor to Death Row, by Maurice Chammah, Marshall Project, 2/24/2022
- SF Public Defender Echoes DA’s Criticism of Police Use of DNA Collected From Crime Victims, NBC, 2/21/2022
- Why a High-Ranking FBI Attorney Is Pushing ‘Unbelievable’ Junk Science on Guns, by Radley Balko, Daily Beast, 2/9/2022
- AG Stein defends science that sent innocent men to prison in interview, by Nick Ochsner, WBTV, 2/8/2022
- Could Stereotypes Put an Innocent Woman on Death Row?, by Jeff Kukucka, Ph.D., Psychology Today, 2/7/2022
- He was charged with murdering his baby on the word of one coroner. Facing a life sentence, he sought a second opinion., by Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan, Washington Post, 2/5/2022
- A Model City, by James Kilgore, Inquest, 2/5/2022
- Episode 7: Shaky Science in the Courtroom, Issues in Science and Technology, 1/31/2022
- DC public defenders seek wider review into fingerprints, firearms evidence, by Jack Moore, WTOP, 1/26/2022
- Wrongfully convicted Wilson man dies months after receiving pardon of innocence, by Julian Grace, WRAL, 1/26/2022
- Flawed forensics in criminal trials overlooked in push to reform expert witness rules, by Hassan Kanu, Reuters, 1/26/2022
- Local Law Scholars Differ on How to Approach Actual Innocence Work, But Agree That Reticence Among Prosecutors to Reopen Cases is One of the Greatest Obstacles to Achieving True Justice, by Keith T. Barber, Indy Week, 1/19/2022
- New Bill Could Stop New York Police From Using Keyword Search and Geofencing Warrants, by Lucas Ropek, Gizmodo, 1/13/2022
- Forensic experts weigh in on DC crime lab’s next steps, by Jack Moore, WTOP, 1/12/2022
- Virginia Beach police used fake DNA results during interrogations, attorney general investigation finds, by Jane Harper, The Virginia-Pilot, 1/12/2022
- N.Y. Prisons Punished 1,600 Based on Faulty Drug Tests, Report Finds, by Karen Zraick, New York Times, 1/4/2022
- Opinion: How many people were wrongly convicted because of D.C.’s dysfunctional crime lab?, by Editorial Board, Washington Post, 12/27/2021
- Your DNA Test Could Send a Relative to Jail, by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, New York Times, 12/27/2021
- The FBI’s Misinformation Campaign on Firearms-toolmark Testimony, by David Kaye, Forensic Science, Statistics & the Law, 12/25/2021
- DRE Post-Incident Review: Something to Consider in Cases Without a DRE, by Beth Barnes, 12/21/2021
- Testing Rape Kits Can Deliver Exonerations, Closure and Cost Savings. Why Does It Still Take So Long to Do?, by Catherine Rentz, ProPublica, 12/16/2021
- He Was Convicted of Raping Alice Sebold. Then the Case Unraveled., by Corina Knoll, Karen Zraick and Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 12/15/2021
- Sweeping report urges DC to review every case handled by firearms, fingerprint units at troubled crime lab, by Jack Moore, WTOP, 12/14/2021
- Autopsy: Severe brain trauma in ex-NFL player who shot 6, by Michelle Liu, WRAL, 12/14/2021
- Forensic hypnosis in Texas prompts questions about death row case, by David Martin Davies, 12/12/2021
- Is a Single Fingerprint Enough to Convict?, by Eva Herscowitz, The Crime Report, 12/6/2021
- Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them, by Aaron Sankin et al, Gizmodo, 12/2/2021
- $6 million award for NC man after jury finds police detective fabricated evidence, by Virginia Bridges, Raleigh News & Observer, 12/1/2021
- 51 prisoners will have their cases reviewed for potential wrongful convictions over hair analysis, by Allison Sherry, Colorado Public Radio, 11/29/2021
- NC State Crime Lab, Attorney General, Defends Exposed Forensic Science That Sent Innocent Men To Jail, by Becca Roberts, WBTV, 11/21/2021
- Problems in San Diego crime lab come to light in audits and internal documents, by Greg Moran, Los Angeles Times, 11/21/2021
- A Utah company says it’s revolutionized truth-telling technology. Experts are highly skeptical., by Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 11/15/2021
- How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer, by Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 11/15/2021
- How do autistic individuals interact with the criminal justice system?, by Drexel University, Phys.org, 11/11/2021
- ATF’s Mobile National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) Unit Being Used by Piedmont/Triad Law Enforcement Agencies to Help Link Crimes and Offenders, The Caswell Messenger, 11/5/2021
- Police Turn on Hidden Cameras, Turn Off Fourth Amendment, by Joshua Windham and Daryl James, Bloomberg Law, 11/1/2021
- Police raid downtown Greensboro hemp store, but owner argues testing of products was faulty, by Jamie Biggs, Rockingham Now, 10/25/2021
- Opinion: Thousands of missed police killings prove we must address systemic bias in forensic science, by Peter Neufeld, Keith Findley and Dean Strang, Washington Post, 10/15/2021
- Reforming Forensics: Why Academics Are Challenging the Science Behind U.S. Criminal Justice, by Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 10/15/2021
- Report probing DC crime lab’s missteps coming soon — and it will be public, official says, by Jack Moore, WTOP, 10/14/2021
- The Sniff Test, by Peter Andrey Smith, Science, 10/14/2021
- They put me in solitary for drugs I didn’t have: Many prisons use faulty drug tests, by Keri Blakinger, NBC, 10/14/2021
- Suspensions and a reprimand proposed for prosecutors admonished in drug lab scandal, by Deborah Becker, WBUR, 10/12/2021
- Vice Hit With $300M Suit From Controversial Surveillance Company, by Lacklan Cartwright, Daily Beast, 10/12/2021
- Cook County Board Approves Rapid DNA System for Medical Examiner’s Office, by Silence DoGood, Southland Journal, 10/10/2021
- Opinion: Another victim of America’s greatest forensics fraudster has been exonerated, by Radley Balko, Washington Post, 10/8/2021
- Ballistics experts in case against Luke Air Force Base airman disagree, by Felicia Fonseca, Military Times, 10/7/2021
- Early review finds 900+ cases where debunked science was used by prosecutors, by Nick Ochsner, WBTV, 10/7/2021
- Use-of-force expert questioned in Rittenhouse murder case, by Joe Kelly, Courthouse News Service, 10/5/2021
- ‘Chilling’: Facial recognition firm Clearview AI hits watchdog groups with subpoenas, by Alexandra S. Levine, Politico, 9/24/2021
- Messages show fired Rowan medical examiner didn’t think hole in man’s head was bullet wound, by Josh Bergeron, Salisbury Post, 9/17/2021
- DC abruptly disbands crime lab’s firearms unit, by Jack Moore, WTOP, 9/16/2021
- Researchers Say Consistency in Context is Crucial in Ensuring that Analysts Accurately Process Forensic DNA Data, by Jeanne Long, Rutgers-Camden News Now, 9/15/2021
- Robbery Poses Legal Test for Police Use of Google Location Data, by Andrea Vittorio, Bloomberg Businessweek, 9/14/2021
- Editorial Article: The use of probabilistic genotyping software in forensic DNA analysis, by Michael Coble, Ph.D., SelectScience, 9/14/2021
- The detective in your DMs: Massachusetts appeal takes aim at police trawling social media, by Thomas F. Harrison, Courthouse News Service, 9/8/2021
- Forensic Testimony Distorted by ‘Implicit’ Racial Bias: Paper, by Eva Herscowitz, The Crime Report, 9/8/2021
- Federal judge overturns Rodriguez death sentence, orders new penalty phase of trial, by Madison Quinn, KFGO, 9/7/2021
- Toxicology Rounds: Your ED Patients are Likely Using Delta-8-THC, by Leon Gussow, MD, Emergency Medicine News, 8/25/2021
- Forensic Lab Contamination in WA Puts Cases in Jeopardy, The Crime Report, 8/24/2021
- More meth, cocaine contamination found at Washington state toxicology lab, by Lewis Kamb, Seattle Times, 8/23/2021
- How Rape Affects Memory And The Brain, And Why More Police Need To Know About This, by Sammy Caiola, NPR, 8/22/2021
- How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence, by Garance Burke, Martha Mendoza, Juliet Linderman, and Michael Tarm, AP, 8/20/2021
- New method to detect and visualise sperm cells recovered from forensic evidence, King's College London, 8/19/2021
- Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands, by Zack Whittaker, Tech Crunch, 8/19/2021
- Perpetrator pose reinstatement during a lineup test increases discrimination accuracy, by Melissa Colloff etal, Nature, 8/15/2021
- A myth that lingers on: Casual contact with fentanyl causes overdoses, by Peter Andrey Smith, Washington Post, 8/13/2021
- Auditor to review DC crime lab’s compliance with 2011 law creating independent forensic agency, by Jack Moore, WTOP, 8/11/2021
- What’s Wrong with Forensic Science? Everything, Says Paper, by Emily Riley, The Crime Report, 8/11/2021
- Digital Heads Help Eyewitnesses Identify Suspects, by Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 8/10/2021
- How DNA recovered from pill surfaces could snare drug syndicates, by Flinders University, Phys.org, 8/9/2021
- Medical Examiner’s Office chief toxicologist faces criminal probe with potential legal ramifications in years of cases (FL), by Liane Morejon and Amanda Batchelor, WPLG, 7/29/2021
- Police Are Telling ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence From Gunshot-Detecting AI, by Todd Feathers, Vice, 7/26/2021
- Washington State Patrol’s toxicology lab ran tests in office contaminated by meth, possibly jeopardizing thousands of cases, by Lewis Kamb, Seattle Times, 7/25/2021
- After Two Decades and a DNA Test, Charges Are Dropped in Georgia Killings, by Jacey Fortin, New York Times, 7/23/2021
- A 14-year-old girl’s murder went unsolved for 32 years. A lab broke the case using just 15 human cells, Washington Post, 7/23/2021
- Forensic Science Organization to Draft Standards for Sexual Assault Examinations, NIST, 7/21/2021
- Opinion: What Do Police Know About Teenagers? Not Enough., by Meryl Davids Landau, New York Times, 7/19/2021
- From Macy’s to Ace Hardware, facial recognition is already everywhere, by Rebecca Heilweil, VOX, 7/15/2021
- All Cops Should Submit DNA Samples to Avoid Crime-Scene Confusion: Federal Report, by Reuven Blau, The City, 7/15/2021
- Why autistic people are less likely to get a fair trial, by Matthew Rozsa, Salon, 7/14/2021
- It’s time to end the trade secret evidentiary privilege among forensic algorithm vendors, by Rebecca Wexler, Techdirt, 7/13/2021
- A secret algorithm is transforming DNA evidence. This defendant could be the first to scrutinize it., by Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 7/13/2021