MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Mayor Sandy Stimpson’s administration is seeking to improve “transparency” and reduce confusion over the chain of command at a city-run agency that conducts cyber investigations.

Digital evidence comes in all shapes and sizes: pallets full of computers, a hard drive with an AK-47 bullet hole in it, audio tapes fished out of the ocean, mangled floppies, garbled 911 calls.

The DCFL is working toward becoming an accredited computer forensics lab through the American Society of Crime Lab Directors, which in 2003 adopted computer forensics standards. What sets the DCFL’s ...