On October 11th, 2017
SACRAMENTO – On October 10, 2017, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra held an awards ceremony at the Courtyard Marriott Midtown, to thank Department of Justice employees for their excellent work and outstanding accomplishments. Among those awarded were California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) and California Association of Law Enforcement Employees (CALEE) Members Reva Headley, […]
On April 18th, 2017
SACRAMENTO – On April 17, 2017, Attorney General Xavier Becerra went to bat for better pay for California Department of Justice (DOJ) criminalists and special agents by personally appearing and testifying at a legislative budget committee hearing. “It is wonderful to see our new AG already in tune with the needs of our members and […]
On February 1st, 2017
LOS ANGELES - On the 41st anniversary of the sexual assault and murder of Karen Klaas, a 32-year-old mother and the ex-wife of Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department announced the decades-old case has been solved by criminalists using Familial DNA technology at the California Department of Justice Bureau […]
On February 1st, 2017
TEHAMA COUNTY - On January 30, 2017, criminalists with the California Department of Justice were called upon to help Tehama County Sheriff’s investigators with a double homicide involving a possible robbery and two crime scenes. According to a Tehama County Sheriff’s press release, it appears two to three men, armed with at least one weapon, […]
On May 5th, 2016
LOS ANGELES – On May 5, 2016, a jury in Los Angeles returned guilty verdicts in the trial of Lonnie Franklin Jr., 63, aka the Grim Sleeper serial killer. The former mechanic is now convicted of killing nine women and a 15-year-old girl during a 22-year period from 1985 to 2007. Most of the victims […]
RIPON - On April 15, 2016, seven Association of Criminalists-Department of Justice (AC-DOJ) board members met in Ripon for their first quarterly meeting in 2016. "Due to the distances involved and everybody's busy schedules, we don't often get to meet physically as a board," said AC-DOJ President John Miller. "It was great to see everybody […]
