Audit of $90M state crime lab highlights empty promises, need for improvement

Empty promises and revelations about evidence procedures — a newly released audit of the $90 million crime lab the state built in 2012 isn’t a shining report card.
The 86-page audit references public testimony from Department of Public Safety management in 2010.
“[At the new crime lab] there would be an immediate increase in efficiency of twenty percent, directly related to adequate use of space and equipment for all types of work processes and analysis in the lab,&rd