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		<title>Audit: Middletown Police Improperly Handle Evidence</title>
		<link>http://evidenceblog.iape.org/2010/07/audit-middletown-police-improperly-handle-evidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NORTH COUNTRY GAZETTE, northcountrygazette.org
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Middletown, NY
MIDDLETOWN—The  police department’s property and evidence policy needs improvement because it did not require any written procedures for handling and storing property and evidence, according to a report released by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.
In addition, the police department failed to deposit cash with the city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smith appealing dismissal from city police force</title>
		<link>http://evidenceblog.iape.org/2010/07/smith-appealing-dismissal-from-city-police-force/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cleveland Daily Banner, clevelandbanner.com
BYLINE: DAVID DAVIS, Managing Editor
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Cleveland, OH
A Cleveland police officer dismissed for mishandling evidence is appealing the decision to City Manager Janice Casteel.
Roger Smith said in a three-page handwritten letter released by the city manager, he believes the action was unfair.
Casteel said this morning she has not set a date for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NC law mandating DNA from suspects hailed as crime-fighting tool</title>
		<link>http://evidenceblog.iape.org/2010/07/nc-law-mandating-dna-from-suspects-hailed-as-crime-fighting-tool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IAPE</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[citizen-times.com
BYLINE: Clarke Morrison
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Asheville, NC
ASHEVILLE — A new state law requiring that police take DNA samples from people charged in violent or sex crimes could solve 100 cases statewide in the first year alone.
And it could give investigators more breaks like one that led to a recent arrest in an Asheville rape from 2001, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sheriff’s evidence room is a cache of oddities:</title>
		<link>http://evidenceblog.iape.org/2010/07/sheriffs-evidence-room-is-a-cache-of-oddities/</link>
		<comments>http://evidenceblog.iape.org/2010/07/sheriffs-evidence-room-is-a-cache-of-oddities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IAPE</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lewiston Morning Tribune (Idaho), Tribune Publishing Co.
BYLINE: JOELYN HANSEN
Bonneville County, ID
KKK robe, guns, drugs, burglary tools are just a few of the things
IDAHO FALLS — The Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office has no clear answer as to why there’s a Ku Klux Klan robe in the evidence and property room, officers just know it’s there.
A resident [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind closed doors:</title>
		<link>http://evidenceblog.iape.org/2010/07/behind-closed-doors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The La Crosse Tribune, lacrossetribune.com
BYLINE: ANNE JUNGEN ajungen@lacrossetribune.com
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La Crosse, WI

Shelves filled with evidence in the evidence room at the La Crosse Police Dept. Erik Daily
Highly secure police property rooms hold evidence
Proof of guilt can be found here, tucked inside manila envelopes stacked floor to ceiling. Cash hijacked from a bank. A DNA-laden rock [...]]]></description>
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