Review of FBI forensics does not extend to federally trained state, local examiners. December 22, 2012. Max M. Houck, Ph.D., Director at the District of Columbia Department of Forensic Sciences.

The FBI was not pleased. There were mentions of the agency in documents connected to an upcoming forensics conference that it deemed disparaging. So in the weeks before President Donald Trump took ...

Forensic hair matches were overstated in many cases heard before 2000, including those of 32 defendants sentenced to death, the FBI and the Justice Department acknowledged after a review.

The FBI has a new headline-grabbing—and hair-raising—scandal connected to faulty forensics practices. This is not the first time the science prosecutors have used to put people behind bars has ...

The FBI’s so-called “raw” surveillance footage from outside Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell on the night of his death was ...

Agar’s employer, the FBI crime lab, is often touted as the most prestigious forensics institution in the world. But the lab has also overseen some embarrassing, high-profile scandals.

FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) compliance isn't optional when handling law enforcement data. From MFA to ...

Flaws in FBI forensics analysis may have helped convict wrong people 02:49. The FBI is notifying hundreds of defendants in 46 states that their convictions involved flawed expert testimony.It now ...

The FBI is creating a $3-million computer forensics lab to help investigators search for incriminating e-mails and encrypted documents in the hardware or software of seized computers and disks.

The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against ...