Daily Herald: Elgin Community College's Forensics Lab

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A sophisticated forensics lab resides at Elgin Community College. With state and FBI crime labs notoriously backlogged, the community college campus provides a new home for police to work on solving crime.

"Very few things can be done nowadays without leaving a digital fingerprint," said Detective Keith Smith, a 30-year veteran of the Kane County Sheriff's Department, who helped set up the digital forensics lab and helps train officers how to use the equipment.

It's free to law enforcement agencies seeking to extract evidence from computers, cellphones, tablets, GPS units and other digital devices.

You can read the full story in the Daily Herald's edition from Sunday, August 24, 2014, or online at dailyherald.com.