The lab has never lost its accreditation since earning it in 2003.īut some of its work over the years has become pivotal in the ongoing case of Jane Dorotik, a former Valley Center woman who was convicted in 2001 of murdering her husband Robert. Overall the years of audits generally give good marks to the lab, which processes some 15,000 cases a year for nearly three dozen local, state and federal agencies. The keycard problem was one of several that surfaced in a review of years of audits and internal reports of the county lab conducted by The San Diego Union-Tribune. Now, the statement said, the lab does security audits each quarter. In an email response to questions about the audits, the Sheriff’s Department said the delay was because it was not aware until December 2019 that more information was needed. That’s because it took the lab months to provide documentation to satisfy auditors that they had fixed the issue. Testimony at the Jane Dorotik hearing has revealed long-running concerns inside the county crime lab about the work record of a former criminalistīut it was not until nearly 18 months later, in June 2020, that the OIG auditors formally closed the audit.
Trouble in the Crime Lab: Questions arise amid ‘Mean Girls’ atmosphere
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