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 FY2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program-Nassau County Medical Examiner's Office Division of Forensic Services (Biology Section)
Award Information
Awardee
              Nassau County
Award #
              2015-DN-BX-0074
Funding Category
              Formula
Location
                    Mineola, NY
Congressional District
              4
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2015
Total funding (to date)
              $270,625
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2015, $270,625)
The Nassau County Medical Examiner's Office, Division of Forensic Services Biology Section (DFSBS) is the agency responsible for analyzing biological evidence associated with criminal investigations for all local law enforcement agencies within the county of Nassau.   The DFSBS functions as the county's CODIS custodian.  The laboratory is located at 2251 Hempstead Turnpike in East Meadow NY, a separate location from its administrative office located at 1 West Street, Mineola N.Y.  The objective of the proposed National Institute of Justice Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program for FY2015 is to reduce the overall turnaround time for the handling, screening, and analysis of forensic DNA samples, and to improve laboratory throughput in an effort to prevent forensic DNA casework backlogs within the County of Nassau. In order to reduce the overall turnaround, bottlenecks in backlogged case reviews will be addressed through funding of overtime for laboratory personnel. Technical and administrative reviews have been the laboratorys major obstacle to the reduction of turnaround.  Improvements in laboratory technology and workflow will be addressed through the funding of instrumentation and expert software designed to reduce the time required to analyze DNA samples and interpret complicated mixture of DNA for CODIS profile entry.  Requested overtime for the review of the QIAGEN QIAcube, ABI Life Technologies Proflex and Yfiler Plus Amplification System and STRMIX expert software validations will be used to implement this technology in a timely manner.  In order to maintain the current capacity of property crime related DNA analysis the laboratory is requesting the funds for the purchase of reagents and consumables which will prevent the rejection of a significant number of property crime related cases.  This is a vital initiative to the laboratory and its users since property crimes accounted for approximately 47% of submissions, 56% of CODIS profiles entered and 63% of CODIS hits returned in 2014.
The success of the goals and objectives proposed for this project will be measured by the expected decrease in case turnaround time and the number of CODIS eligible profiles entered into the database.  Metrics will be generated by the Laboratory Information Management System report function.  For this program reporting period the laboratory will be striving to meet a goal of a 50 day turnaround for the delivery of test results to its users.
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