Patent ID: 8142075

Claim:
A tamper-evident evidence bag, comprising: a blank having first and second planar shaped and pivotally connected panels; a bag having an open perimeter edge and which is secured to first selected facing surfaces of said pivotally connected panels, and such that an interior of the bag is communicable through an aperture defined between said panels; said first and second panels being folded from an open position, in which said panels are established in a substantially parallel relationship, to a closed position, in which opposingly facing surfaces of said panels are adhered against one another and in order to maintain, in tamper-evident fashion, items placed within the bag enclosure; an evidence accessing portion integrally formed with a selected location of said bag and which is adaptable to being incised in order to retrieve objects of evidence previously collected, recorded and stored in said bag; and additional tamper-evident resealing structure located in proximity to said evidence accessing portion and exhibiting adhesive resealing and documentable re-entry fields, said tamper-evident resealing structure further comprising a flap hingedly secured along an exterior surface of said bag, a face of said flap exhibiting an adhesive backing covered by a peel away layer, said evidence accessing portion being in proximity to said flap such that, upon incising an extending length along said evidence accessing portion, said flap being rotated over said accessing portion and adhesively sealed against said selected location in an additional tamper-evident fashion.