On the Job 

The laboratory team at the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) in Richfield acted quickly to help law enforcement identify a suspect in a recent abduction and rape in Canton.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced in July that his office has awarded 29 Ohio rape crisis centers with a total of more than $1.4 million in grant funding.

Each month, new progress is being made by my office’s Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Testing Initiative. As of Aug. 1, 294 law enforcement agencies had submitted 13,908 kits to be tested as part of the initiative. Forensic scientists with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) completed testing on a total of 11,472 kits, resulting in 4,129 hits in the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS).

On a Thursday afternoon, seven men sat quietly in the jury box of a Butler County courtroom listening to testimony about the suffering caused by gun violence. They weren’t part of a jury, though, in fact, they were called to the court by their parole officers to listen to a warning about the perils of criminal life.

Col. Danny McKnight, who has been sharing lessons on life and leadership since his retirement from the Army in 2002, will be a featured speaker at the Ohio Attorney General’s 2016 Law Enforcement Conference.