Crowd-sourced automated review of forensic files

A crowd-sourcing server for providing rapid expert review of forensic data files for a plurality of customers using a plurality of independent forensic expert services comprising:

• a logic processor with a memory or storage configured with logic instructions to provide or facilitate:
• a customer interface module for communicating with customers needing rapid expert review of forensic data files not meeting quality criteria for automated analysis;
• a service provider module for communicating with a plurality of forensic experts or forensic expert services providing review of forensic data files;
• a matching module for matching service providers with a data file requiring review and communicating availability of a review job to the selected experts;
• and a job management module for receiving bids from service providers for a job, assigning an expert to a job, communicating job details to the expert, confirming that results received from the expert meet job criteria.

A method comprising:

• receiving from a system administrator, over a communications network, notification of a job to be performed, wherein the job comprises delivering a reviewed STR profile computer file to the system administrator;
• providing to the system administrator, over a communications network, a response indicating willingness to perform the job;
• taking delivery from the system administrator, over a communications network, an STR profile computer file to be reviewed;
• reviewing the STR profile computer file to remove at least one flagged item in the STR profile computer file, thereby generating a reviewed STR profile computer file;
• and
• delivering to the system administrator, over a communications network, the reviewed STR profile computer file.