The D.C. Council’s public safety committee unanimously backed a bill Tuesday that will create a separate forensics agency.

A new forensics lab is scheduled to open next year, but the District hasn’t yet created an administrative structure for putting it to use. The bill written by at-large Councilman Phil Mendelson, who heads the public safety committee, will create a forensics department led by a director and governed by a board.

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