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"Regional Computer Forensics Lab Will Help FBI Crack
High-Tech Cases" 
Kansas City Star (04/26/02); Hayes, David 

Between 1998 and 2001, law enforcement cases involving
computers have risen 680 percent. To combat
computer-assisted crimes, the FBI plans to open three new
computer forensics labs next year in the Kansas City,
Chicago, and San Francisco areas. The Kansas City lab will
receive about $2 million in initial funding and a staff of
25 local, state, and federal law enforcement officers. In
addition, at least nine local police departments are
expected to appoint officers to the lab, the FBI says. Such
labs, two of which are already successfully operating in San
Diego and Dallas, will be used to extract indisputable
evidence against offenders and to aid in investigations. The
labs deal with such crimes as investment fraud, robbery, sex
crimes, murder, terrorism, and especially child pornography.
Computer forensics usually involves PC hard drives, but can
also involve, for instance, the enhancing of surveillance
videos of robberies, explains Mike Jacobson, a police
investigator at the Overland Park, Kansas Police Department.
Computers "are an electronic time-capture device," states
John Gunn, director of the San Diego computer forensics lab.


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