Looking for digital “smoking guns†is the challenge of the new Kentucky Regional Computer Forensic Lab (RCFL) at UofL. The lab, one of just 14 FBI-operated RCFL facilities in the nation, brings the federal agency together with local law enforcement to bring efficiency and uniformity to finding, extracting and storing digital evidence and presenting it in court. It also is the only RCFL in the nation to be associated with a university. Law enforcement officials there will conduct research in collaboration with UofL faculty and student interns to improve data extraction techniques and analyze emerging digital technologies…
