The award is distributed among four of the stat's five medical examiners to facilitate improvement of forensic investigation capacity as approved by the state's forensic Investigations council.

Coverdell funds are to be used to improve the quality and timeliness of forensic science and medical examiner services and/or to eliminate backlogs in the analysis of forensic evidence, including controlled substances, firearms examination, forensic pathology, latent prints, questioned documents, toxicology, and trace evidence.

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