On Monday Nov 4 starting at 2:30 pm (arrive promptly by 2:20 pm), we will be touring the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department Regional Crime Laboratory.

Be sure to wear closed-toed shoes and be on time.

This trip is completely optional. If you do attend, you will get credit for 1 of your 2 required Exploration Trips, just for showing up.

Meet at 2:20 pm. DO NOT BE LATE!

Wear comfortable walking shoes. You will be on your feet for a lot of the 1 1/2 hours.

Here are the directions:

San Diego County Sheriff’s Department Regional Crime Laboratory (5590 Overland Ave, San Diego, CA 92123 but DON’T put that into your GPS because it will NOT take you to the correct parking lot!!!)

Type the address “9292 Chesapeake Drive” in your GPS. Directly ACROSS THE STREET from that address, you will see a sign for the "County of San Diego" and there you will enter the 6 stories tall parking structure entrance where we will all park. (This is west on Chesapeake Drive from Ruffin Road, where you will turn Left into the structure, or right into the structure if you enter Chesapeake Drive from Kearny Villa Road.)

Park on the 4th or 5th level, anywhere that does not have a red stripe or a marking that says “reserved”.

Take the elevators down and meet everyone at the bottom of the elevators on the west side of the parking structure.

At 2:20 pm, we will all walk together to the crime lab which is an all-glass building west of the parking structure (it is not the building directly next to it).

We will get checked in, and the tour will start promptly at 2:30 pm.

We will likely be finished by 4:00 pm, but leave a little margin in your schedule just in case it goes longer.

In previous semesters the tentative schedule included visiting the following sections and talking with the following people, so I expect this to be similar:

CSI-Brande Silverthorn

Trace/Narcotics- Chris Vance

DNA-Jose Valdez

Firearms- Katie Dyer

Toxicology-David Flores

Question Documents- Gina Hunter

Latent Prints- Leah Hogue

Erica is the person setting up the tour for us. Some of the people above may be testifying in court that day or no longer working there, so we won't know for sure until we get there.

Excited!!!!!

Prof Butland

p.s. I will need to give a list of names to the Crime Lab of everyone planning to come. If you tell me that you can come, but you can't the day of, PLEASE SEND ME A MESSAGE THROUGH INBOX so that we don't look for you. Thanks!

p.s.s. Here are some more "guidelines" I was sent, and a map, but I found the map more confusing that what I sent above.

Visitor badges must always be worn.
The duration of the tour will be approximately 1 – 1.5 hours.
Restrooms are on the 1^st floor; please ensure they are used before the tour.
Water bottles are permitted, however. water will not be provided.
Please make sure you have eaten beforehand, there will be no snack breaks during the tour.
Close-toed shoes are required.
Photos and videos will NOT be allowed beyond the Lobby area for preservation and security of evidence.

Campus Map.pdf