With legislative proposals coming together in advance of Friday?s biennial bill-filing deadline, Senate Republicans on Wednesday announced they?ll make a push to create a forensic services drug lab oversight board, a move intended to prevent the type of evidence tampering that recently upended the criminal justice system and eroded public confidence.
Under a proposal announced Wednesday by the four-member Senate Republican caucus, a five-member board in the Executive Office of Public Safety would have oversight authority over all state facilities involved in forensic services in criminal investigations.
The members would be the public safety secretary, attorney general, inspector general, and the state police colonel, or their designees, and one appointee to be named by the governor.
The plan comes as former state chemist Annie Dookhan faces a string of criminal charges in connection with her alleged evidence tampering at a Jamaica Plain state lab. Dookhan has pled not guilty to the charges against her.
In a statement, Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr said the Dookhan case had ?exposed a systemic failure in the operation of the state drug lab which demands that we take immediate action to ensure that both public safety and the prosecution of drug-related crimes are not compromised.?
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