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JAABCAM: BSO CRIME LAB

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1.) Dr. Jim Ongley, MD & JD, Lab Manager of the BSO Regional Crime Lab (his wife is dentist Dr. Linda Ongley, familiar to many courthouse and Plantation families).  The 30,000 square foot facility houses a fully functional crime lab and crime scene unit, which is overseen by BSO Captain Fernando Gajate.  The BSO Lab is currently under assault due to budget cuts, with its seven million dollar annual budget in severe jeopardy after the current funding dries up in October of 2010.  Doc Ongley points out the numerous benefits of having a local crime lab, including heightened reliability (the lab is the only government lab certified to international standards), quicker turnarounds allowing cases to resolve faster (which reduces the jail population, helping to obviate the need for a new jail), easy access for lawyers to inspect evidence, and major transportation savings since FDLE crime techs don't have to come to Broward to testify;  2...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on December 06, 2009 (boomark / email).