STACS DNA delivers the only sample management software designed specifically for forensic DNA labs. Since 2000, we've helped DNA database and casework labs increase capacity, prevent errors, cut costs, improve data quality and meet accreditation standards, without hiring additional staff.
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You don't need to waste precious time tracking grants!
Does your grant manager spend hours preparing NIJ grant reports? Do lab staff still use a spreadsheet to track activities for grant reporting? Does it take hours or even days away from processing cases to fix occasional errors? Would it save you and your team time and exasperation if all of that was completely automated?
STACS-CW Enterprisecompletely automates grant tracking as part of its regular, extensive audit trail.
Did you get your Lab Budget Impact Analysis yet? What are you waiting for? Based on your lab's own data, this online tool gives you a customized report after calculating the most budget-friendly way to grow your lab's capacity and improve turnaround time.
Come and see Tim Stacy present "Customer Case Studies: How DNA Labs Use Technology to Increase Productivity" at Mid-America.
Tim will share how two casework DNA labs increased their sample throughput by 146% and 250% respectfully without hiring a single additional analyst, saving salaries and benefits. In fact, the labs would have each needed to hire and train 32% and 60% more analysts in order to achieve equivalent capacity gains if they had not automated. Tim will also present the labs' additional benefits, including quality improvement and risk reduction.
Can't make the presentation? Read the case studies
Vice President Joe Biden threw his support behind a $41 million budget proposal that continues a sexual assault initiative aimed at reducing rape kit testing backlogs.
Two mothers who lost their daughters to murder spent a week lobbying Minnesota lawmakers about requiring law enforcement officers to take DNA swabs from serious felony suspects.
The bill is to clarify a person's right to present new DNA evidence after being convicted of a crime, but proposed new rules will slow the process down.
The law requires keeping physical evidence until after a convicted person's sentence has been served, but it says nothing about how the evidence should be maintained.
The Netherlands' DNA database recently made its 25,000th match. It involved a match between evidence found in the Netherlands and a person whose DNA profile is in the Austrian DNA database.
Simply spending more money on testing won't prevent history repeating itself. Poor training and attitudes on the part of investigators will also need tackling.
A Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is a document consisting of step-by-step information on how to execute a task. Here is the very, very, very thorough checklist.