Council member Charles Allen introduced legislation to turn the Department of Forensic Sciences into an independent agency.
Allen said the bill is a response to poor executive oversight that led the department to lose accreditation.
“These changes are a direct result of those actions,” he said, “and will help ensure that as we get back the accreditation for DFS, we are in a position to make sure we keep it.” Nine additional council members, including mayoral candidate Robert C. White Jr. and Council Chairman Phil Mendelson , signed off on the bill.
The move to give more power to the advisory board, in addition to a host of other changes, came from recommendations laid out by consulting firm SNA International in a scathingof the agency in December. SNA was hired by the District to assess the crime lab after it lost accreditation. Susana Castillo, a spokeswoman for D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser , said in a statement: “The bill includes many of the recommendations from the December 2021 SNA International report commissioned by Mayor Bowser as part of our top to bottom review of the agency, and we will look forward to working with the Council on it.
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