Debbie Smith Act Grant Program Helps to Reduce DNA Backlog
On December 30, 2019, President Trump signed the Debbie Smith Act to help eliminate rape kit backlog. If your forensic lab or research facility works with DNA, consider this potential funding source to assist with DNA backlog reduction. The Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant Program provides funding to support public crime laboratories’ work to build capacity and process DNA […]
New LSV2 Tutorials: Imaging/Screening in Fluorescence
Screening in Fluorescence with the LSV2 Our next series of LSV2 video tutorials expands upon the fluorescence screening technique with the LSV2 Leeds Spectral Vision System. Jake dives into the mechanisms of fluorescence, how to detect fluorescence, and then puts the LSV2 to work, screening a piece of sample evidence using the fluorescence mechanisms to […]
5 Unique Features of the LSV2, Your Next Generation Alternate Light Source Screening Tool
The Leeds Spectral Vision second generation LSV2 model offers an imaging tool that has rapidly been adopted by forensic laboratories to help reduce evidence screening bottlenecks and provide easy evidence documentation. Incorporating several unique capabilities, the LSV2 is an intuitive and versatile investigative tool for the forensic lab. Unique Features of the LSV2: Highly sensitive, […]
Leeds Vision 4.0 Software Release
Leeds Spectral Vision System (LSV/LSV2) Users, Thank you for your continued use and support of the Leeds Spectral Vision system (LSV/LSV2). We are pleased to present the next version of Leeds Vision software, Leeds Vision 4.0, free to all of our existing LSV/LSV2 users. New LSV2 systems currently on order will automatically include Leeds Vision […]
Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 2014 to Reduce DNA Backlog
On Monday, September 29, 2014, the president signed into law the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 2014, authorizing appropriations to the Department of Justice for each of Fiscal Years 2015-2019 in the amount of $151 million for the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant Program; $12.5 million for DNA training and education programs; and $30 million […]
Introducing the LSV2 – A Dynamic Forensic Evidence Screening Tool
Since 1999, Leeds Forensic Systems, Inc. has been designing, manufacturing and distributing forensic laboratory equipment including comparison microscopes and imaging tools to enhance the screening capabilities in forensic labs throughout the United States and around the world. Leeds has been established in the forensic industry as a leader of high-quality, high-performance, superior products supported by […]