Department of Justice: Bureau of Forensic Services.

Existing law establishes the Department of Justice and establishes within the department's Bureau of Forensic Services, the California Criminalistics Institute to, among other purposes, facilitate a comprehensive and coordinated approach to meet the high technology forensic science needs of crime laboratories. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact urgency legislation to provide a supplemental funding source for the Department of Justice's Bureau of Forensic Services to sustain its operation of individualizing feature comparison programs.