A state draft report recommends building a TBI Crime Lab in Chattanooga as one part of the effort to reduce time in examining evidence in criminal cases.
For many years, law enforcement officers from the Chattanooga area have had to shuttle evidence - mainly to Nashville.
There are existing crime labs also in Knoxville and Jackson. The draft report from TACIR (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations) says all those labs are running out of space and need to be ... more