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From: Ralph H. Prince
Su~~t: Resolution Supporting Funding
hy County of San Bernardino
to improve County's Scientific
Investigation Services
Dept: City Attorney
Date: No"ember 13, 1985
Synopsis of Previous Council action:
At the November 12, 1985 Ways & Means Committee meeting, the City
Attorney was directed to prepare a resolution supporting funding
by the County of San Bernardino to improve the County's scientific
investigation services.
Recommen':led motion:
Adopt resolution.
JUSTIFICATION FOR PLACEMENT ON SUPPLEMENTAL AGENDA
The City Attorney was directed to prepare this resolution for the
Council meeting of November 18, 1985, after the agenda deadline
had passed.
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Contact person: Allen R. Briqqs
Phone:
5256
Supporting data attached: Yes
Ward:
N/A
FUNDING REQUIREMENTS:
Amount:
N/A
Sou rce:
Finance:
Council Notes:
75-0262
Agenda Item No.
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RESOLUTION NO.
2 RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN
BERNARDINO SUPPORTING FUNDING BY THE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY BOARD
3 OF SUPERVISORS FOR A 3-YEAR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM TO IMPROVE THE
COUNTY'S SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION SERVICES.
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BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
5 SAN BERNARDINO AS FOLLOWS:
6 SECTION 1. Recitals.
7 A. During the last few years, the San Bernardino County
8 Sheriff's Department Crime Laboratory and Identification Division
9 has been unable to keep up with the growing and more sophisticated
10 needs of the criminal justice system.
11 B. A dramatic increase in the reliance on finite physical
12 evidence by investigators and prosecutors, plus bold and
13 scientific sophistication by expert witnesses and defense
14 attorneys, and a general increase in violent crimes and drug and
15 alcohol related prosecutions have greatly impacted the scientific
16 investigative workload of the Crime Laboratory and Identification
17 Division.
18 C. In many cases, understaffing and outdated equipment have
19 resulted in examinations not being completed until just before or
20 during trial, which may result in reducing the number of guilty
21 pleas and thereby necessitating expenditures of hundreds of
22 thousands of dollars more every year in prosecution, county-paid
23 defense costs, and the costs associated with witness and jury
24 fees, and additional court time.
25 D. Sheriff Floyd Tidwell proposes a 3-year development
26 program to build a strong, state-of-the-art scientific
27 investigative service for all local law enforcement agencies and
28 the total criminal justice system within the County of San
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2 E. The 3-year development program will result in early
3 settlement of cases, less cases dismissed, more convictions,
4 fewer criminals being released back into our community, and less
5 cost to the taxpayer.
6 SECTION 2. Implementation. The Mayor and Common Council of
7 the City of San Bernardino support the provision of these
8 a~~itional facilities and urge the San Bernardino County Board of
9 supervisors to provide funding to improve the scientific
10 investigation services provided by the Crime Laboratory and
11 Identification Division of the Sheriff's Department.
12 SECTION 3. The City Clerk of the City of San Bernardino is
13 hereby authorized and directed to transmit a certified copy of
14 this resolution to the Clerk to the Board of Supervisors of the
15 county of San Bernardino.
16 I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was duly
17 adopted by the Mayor and Common Council of the City of San
18 Bernardino at a meeting thereof, held on
19 the day of , 1985, by the following vote,
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City Clerk
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Mayor of the City of San Bernardino
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