Right now on news4 this week, investigations going digital. Ho a local Maryland County is using digital forsics to solve crime cases. Also a witness to history. A longtime d. C. Journalistre ects on the 50th anniversary of the washington plays and the stories told about the lgbtq community. Plus women giving back. Aan local orgation helping to provide clothing for women, and how it inspired one woman to help others in need. Announcer welcome to news4 this week. Hello, everyoneeo im l harris. There is a new team of cyber sleuths in Charles County. The Sheriffs Office there just opened up the doors to a new Digital Forensics lab in waldorf. As derrick ward explains, this new invtigative tool is the result of Lessons Learned from a disturbing case in the county. As technology grows, the Sheriffs Office and Law Enforcement entities have to grow alongha with technology. Reporter the Charles County Sheriffs Office just unveiled its new Digital Forensics lab in waldorf. Its meticulous work. N
Lab. This new investigative tool is a result of Lessons Learned from a disturbing case in theou cy. As technology grows, the Sheriffs Office and Law Enforcement entities have to grow along with that technology. Reporter he tjust unveiled their new lab in waldorf. Its ma thless work. But this work results in big payoffs. From august 2018 through may 2019 our analysts have worked on approximately 255 cases and have examined nearly 500 devices covering all types of crimes. Reporter 20 of those cases were child investigations. One was a child abuse case that led to the creation of the unit. Detectives learned this man, carlos bell had molested 42 children. Hed taken pictures of some of the acts on his cell phone. Everybody is using their devices for everything. And the criminal element is no different. Eporter but during the bell investigation, to get that critical evidence, Charles County had to farm the work out to the state police lab, which means they had to get in line with other case
Metro workers on friday and today we learned this is not about a contract. Workers are very upset with a new sick policy. Metro workers are now required to request most excused absences including sick leave and get supervisor approval of at least three full schedule workdays in advance so people who will be sick on friday had to request that day yesterday in order to follow policy. Now, the union says they did not ask anyone to call out sick but they did call the policy ridiculous and asinine. Metro put a statement out yesterday saying that due to the threat of a sickout, all the supervisor will be forced to work 12 hour shifts. We are tired of the employees taking it on the chin because ramada is running around like the keystone cops changing policies and not knowing how to implement them. Metro says it received nearly 500 absent requests for friday from both bus and the rail employees and they added that they denied all of full bus and rail service on friday. Question, is a woman all
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