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Kim Barnes

Kim Barnes

Law enforcement analyst and investigative genetic genealogist at Douglas County Sheriff's Office; co-founder of the Investigative Genetic Genealogy Association (IGGA)

Jul 13, 2026

5:27
And then I guess from Kim and the law enforcement spin and the law enforcement analysis spin in terms of the basics, if you can kind of grow off of what Christine just said.
5:38
So every case that...
5:40
IGG is performed on starts out through a law enforcement agency or a medical examiner's office.
5:47
So it starts on the law enforcement side, per se.
5:51
It goes out, but then it comes back in as they develop their leads.
5:56
So as the IGG practitioners are coming up with candidates for testing to try to build a match to the profile you're in search of their identity, like that all funnels back into law enforcement.
6:10
So then it comes to the detective investigator and analyst, whoever is tasked with the outreach with that group.

35 MINS LATER

40:53
bringing this up to leadership?

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