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Face added to skull found in Akron

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and Akron authorities recently unveiled the forensic facial reconstruction of a man whose skull was found in January 2016 on a sidewalk in front of a burned out home.

9/28/2017

Unlocking digital evidence: BCI’s Cyber Crimes Unit helps law enforcement access, preserve valuable data

Cellphones packed with text messages, emails, phone numbers, photos, location data, and chat logs are valuable sources of information for criminal investigators. Many of the phones that law enforcement officers confiscate, however, are locked by passwords, damaged, or contain encrypted data.

9/28/2017

Q&A: Cynthia Peterman, director of Intelligence and OHLEG at BCI

The Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) maintains the Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway (OHLEG), an electronic information network that allows law enforcement agencies to share data on criminal histories, evidence submissions, missing children, gangs, protection orders, and more. 

9/28/2017

DeWine awards $2.7 million in grants for drug prevention in schools

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is awarding more than $2.7 million in grant money to law enforcement agencies that present drug-prevention programs at Ohio’s public schools.

9/28/2017

A letter from the Attorney General:

When parents suffer from addiction, they don’t suffer alone. Their children become innocent victims traumatized by living in chaos. As the opioid epidemic has taken hold in Ohio, more children have been put at risk by parental addiction. Increasingly, those children have been entering the child welfare system, including foster care.

9/28/2017
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