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A defense attorney doesn’t need to prove evidence was tampered with. A gap in the custody record is enough to start asking questions, first when

Here we are at the heart of our digital age, but most evidence rooms are still running on the same paper logs and spreadsheet system

Property room managers and evidence custodians often use the words inventory and audit as if they mean the same thing. They describe two different tasks,

The shelves are full, the disposition queue keeps growing, and the staff is already stretched thin; hiring more people is not in the budget. And

Chain of custody is the documented, unbroken record of who handled a piece of evidence, when, and why, from collection through final disposition. It is the proof that lets a prosecutor show the evidence in court is exactly what was collected at the scene, unchanged and untampered with.

CALEA accreditation tells your community, your courts, and your officers that your agency holds itself to a recognized standard. The evidence room is where that