HPD initially requested $4 million to fix the problems -- a request that made several city council members extremely angry, given the current state of the economy and the fact that the city is now looking to tighten its belt on spending.
An internal investigation into what went wrong at the lab has been launched. As of right now, there's no evidence that someone has been unfairly convicted based on faulty fingerprint evidence.
In the wake of this scandal, three lab employees have been relieved from duty with pay and one temporary employee has been fired.
