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New Crime Lab Opens In Louisville
Source: WLKY web site
POSTED: 2:30 pm EDT October 19, 2006
UPDATED: 5:12 pm EDT October 19, 2006
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A new state-of-the-art crime lab opened in Louisville Thursday.
The Kentucky Regional Computer Forensic Lab is one of only 14 in the country
Experts at the lab will focus on digital evidence –- extracting it, preserving it and enhancing it.
"Today the smoking gun that every investigator hopes to find might take the form of a time computer chip hidden in an ordinary electronic device," Kerry Haines, executive director of the FBI's science and technology branch said.
The head of the local FBI office said almost all crimes involve some kind of digital evidence.
“It will bring cutting-edge technology to bear on crime problems anywhere from national security to crimes against children to traditional violent crime,” Tracy Reinhold said.
The new lab is located on the University of Louisville’s Shelby Campus, and it also includes an on-site training center.
It is the first lab nationally to be joined with a university system.
Copyright 2006 by WLKY.com.
[Original Article on the WLKY web site ]