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 Law enforcement agencies throughout the state are being encouraged to resubmit latent fingerprints to the Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) from unsolved, pre-2013 cases in hopes that new technology might provide fresh leads.

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.

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.

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. 

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.