Crime Lab Chronicles
In the wake of more media attention on the SFPD crime lab, Police Chief Greg Suhr invites its national accrediting body back for another looksee.
- Accreditation agency willing to re-audit SFPD crime lab (Examiner) 12/08/11
- Evidence takes spotlight in feds' case against ex-crime lab tech (Examiner) 12/07/11
- DNA Lab Cover-Up: SFPD to Investigate Claims in Secret Court Records (SF Weekly) 12/07/11
- SF district attorney won't charge lawyer who leaked transcripts (Examiner) 12/06/11
- Feds dish out drug charges to former San Francisco crime lab tech (Examiner) 12/02/11
- San Francisco police, drug lab slammed in released transcript (Examiner) 11/30/11
- S.F. judge's flip-flop on DNA lab mystery memo (Chronicle) 11/08/11
- Crime Lab Confidential: DA and SFPD Withheld Damaging Memo About DNA Lab Failings (SF Weekly) 08/24/11
- SF Examiner (Examiner) 06/04/11
- Troubled SF crime lab losing ground (Examiner) 05/02/11
- SFPD sends drugs to drug crime suspect (ABC News) 02/04/11
- Ex-San Francisco crime lab worker faces other charges (Examiner) 01/18/11
- SFPD misconduct issues jeopardize convictions (Examiner) 01/07/11
- Charges dismissed against SFPD crime lab tech (ABC News) 12/31/10
- No Charges For Technician In SF Drug Lab Scandal (KTVU 2) 12/31/10
- SFPD crime lab's DNA evidence could be tainted by concealed mistakes (SF Weekly) 12/22/10
- SFPD's troubled crime lab - more evidence of screwups and coverups (SF Weekly) 12/15/10
- Editorial: Beyond Chief Gascon's reforms (SF Bay Guardian) 08/25/10
- Rooting out the bad apples? (SF Bay Guardian) 08/24/10
- Police chief announces reforms in wake of lab scandal (Examiner) 08/21/10
- Crime-lab supervisors given lesser SFPD jobs (Examiner) 08/19/10
- SFPD Demotes Command Staff In Shakeup (CBS 5) 08/19/10
- City Insider: Alameda fire chief gases up his vehicles on city's dime (Chronicle) 08/18/10
- Conflict of interest denied in crime-lab scandal case (Examiner) 08/06/10
- Conflict of interest denied in crime lab scandal case (Examiner) 08/06/10
- SFPD let DNA-testing device sit idle (Examiner) 07/23/10
- Lab tech probe in state hands (Examiner) 07/21/10
- SF Crime Lab's Future Uncertain (Bay Citizen) 07/20/10
- City Insider: Survey casts doubt on taxes' passage (Chronicle) 07/20/10
- Attorney: D.A. Harris tried to undercut ruling (Chronicle) 07/08/10
- Drug-case prosecution steered back on track (Examiner) 06/30/10
- Crime lab: D.A. questions judge's impartiality (Chronicle) 06/26/10
- Crime lab tech may finally be charged (Examiner) 06/25/10
- DNA lab chief quits as SFPD considers outsourcing (Chronicle) 06/23/10
- City Insider: Phase out crime lab, report urges (Chronicle) 06/16/10
- Crime-testing transfer would save millions (Examiner) 06/16/10
- D.A. tells defenders of expert witness problems (Chronicle) 06/15/10
- Harris' top aide retiring - sat on scandal tip (Chronicle) 06/12/10
- DA's chief prosecutor retires amid scandal (Examiner) 06/12/10
- Outsourcing drug testing would save city $91,000 (Examiner) 06/11/10
- Inmate decline at S.F. Jail could be tied to crime-lab scandal (Examiner) 06/11/10
- Funds directed toward troubled crime lab (Examiner) 06/02/10
- Madden's role concerns jurors (Chronicle) 05/23/10
- SFPD drug lab scandal triggers claim (Examiner) 05/12/10
- SFPD coping with fewer cops on patrol (Examiner) 05/10/10
- Editorials: Are S.F. police procedure problems now fixed? (Chronicle) 05/07/10
- SFPD drops drug testing from crime lab (Examiner) 05/06/10
- Crime lab fiasco led to drug dealers being freed (SF Weekly) 05/05/10
- Mirkarimi Wants Administrator to Run Crime Lab (KCBS) 04/28/10
- SFPD withheld doubts on crime lab from auditors (Chronicle) 04/27/10
- Prosecutors told to leave out some info in SF crime lab documents (Examiner) 04/27/10
- City Insider: Proposal would shift crime lab from SFPD hands (Chronicle) 04/27/10
- Opinion: Reform needed to restore integrity of S.F. crime lab (Chronicle) 04/26/10
- Opinion: Forget refiling the San Francisco drug cases (Chronicle) 04/26/10
- SFPD’s crime-lab problems not unique (Examiner) 04/26/10
- Harris turns drug lab scandal over to state (Chronicle) 04/24/10
- State lab testing S.F. drugs faces theft probe (Chronicle) 04/24/10
- Madden charges will go to state prosecutors (Examiner) 04/24/10
- Crime lab alternatives being probed by police (Examiner) 04/24/10
- Harris Calls SF Drug Lab Scandal A 'Fiasco' (KTVU) 04/24/10
- Crime lab scandal prompts call for independent testing (ABC 7) 04/24/10
- Crime lab alternatives being probed by police (Examiner) 04/23/10
- Release of lab documents is blocked (Examiner) 04/21/10
- Help to clear crime-lab backlog would tally $3.5M (Examiner) 04/20/10
- SFPD Addresses Supes Over Scandal-Plagued Lab (CBS 5) 04/20/10
- Adachi may look at thousands of drug cases (Chronicle) 04/20/10
- Matier and Ross: Turmoil in D.A. office over drug lab scandal (Chronicle) 04/20/10
- SF crime lab at center of growing scandal (Associated Press) 04/19/10
- Judge to S.F. prosecutor: Dump drug cases (Chronicle) 04/16/10
- Ken Garcia: Let soccer fields be built (Examiner) 04/16/10
- SFPD drug lab technician issues not addressed (Examiner) 04/15/10
- Prosecutor: SFPD ignored tech's unreliability (Chronicle) 04/15/10
- Drug lab 'laughed at' problems, ex-tech says (Chronicle) 04/14/10
- Interview with lab tech details alleged drug skimming (Examiner) 04/14/10
- List: How to Fix S.F.'s Crime Lab (SF Weekly) 04/14/10
- Unclaimed property flooding SFPD evidence room (Examiner) 04/10/10
- Back on the streets: Crime lab scandal frees suspects (Examiner) 04/06/10
- S.F. crime lab's new woes - army of feral cats (Chronicle) 04/04/10
- SFPD drug-lab problems could go back years (Chronicle) 04/02/10
- Embroiled lab tech cashing in (Examiner) 04/02/10
- SF crime lab scandal strains justice system (AP) 04/02/10
- Overworked S.F. drug lab was sloppy, audit says (Chronicle) 03/31/10
- Audit reveals crime-lab chaos (Examiner) 03/31/10
- Report Says SFPD Criminalists Overworked (KCBS) 03/31/10
- Back on the streets: Crime lab scandal frees suspects (Examiner) 03/30/10
- Drug lab scandal jeopardizes hundreds of cases (Chronicle) 03/28/10
- D.A. on verge of mass drug-case dismissals (Chronicle) 03/27/10
- Crime lab fallout grows as drug weights inconsistent (Examiner) 03/26/10
- Judge: Lab-scandal papers must go to defense (Chronicle) 03/26/10
- Jury trials tossed as drug lab problems spread (Examiner) 03/26/10
- Melissa Griffin: Familiar crime lab situation (Examiner) 03/25/10
- SFPD announces drug busts that nets 212 suspects (Examiner) 03/25/10
- Judge reviews lab-probe files (Examiner) 03/24/10
- New problem looms in police lab scandal (Chronicle) 03/24/10
- Tainted DNA adds to SFPD's crime lab issues (Examiner) 03/22/10
- S.F. police shake up crime-lab leadership (Chronicle) 03/20/10
- S.F. police hope officers can do drug testing (Chronicle) 03/19/10
- Man wants case tossed due to crime lab fallout (Examiner) 03/19/10
- SF police get training to test drugs (ABC 7 News) 03/19/10
- S.F. police turn elsewhere for drug-test help (Chronicle) 03/12/10
- SFPD still making drug arrests despite lab closure (Examiner) 03/12/10


Katie Kincaid