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In an effort to reduce turnaround times in the TBI’s Forensic Biology Units, hundreds of sexual assault kits, submitted by law enforcement agencies across the state, have been outsourced for laboratory analysis in Florida. The TBI secured $1.5 million in federal grant funding for the project through the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration’s Office of Criminal Justice Programs. Following a competitive bid process, the state awarded the contract to DNA Labs Internationa ...

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation flew 550 kits to the Florida lab, including 250 from the Jackson Crime Laboratory which handles Memphis-area cases.

One of the rape kits that went untested for years belonged to a woman who was raped at 13. She said her rapist was only recently convicted.

The jury found her guilty of Vehicular Homicide by intoxication in the 2019 killing of Officer Nicholas Galinger.

A state commission will soon give the legislature a recommendation on how to get patients medical cannabis.