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Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward
Appendix B
Committee Meeting Agendas
MEETING 1
WASHINGTON, D.C.
JANUARY 25, 2007
8:30
Welcome and Introductions
Committee Co-chairs
Harry T. Edwards, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Constantine Gatsonis, Director, Center for Statistical Studies, Brown University
8:45
Charge to Committee
David W. Hagy, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Policy
Coordination, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice and Principal Deputy Director, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice
9:10
Discussion
9:30
Importance of Study to the Forensics Community
Joe Polski, Chair, Consortium of Forensic Science Organizations
9:45
Discussion
10:15
Current State of Forensics: Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Labs
Joseph L. Peterson, Director and Professor, School of Criminal Justice and Criminalistics, California State University, Los Angeles
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Appendix B
Committee Meeting Agendas
MEETING 1
WASHINGTON, D.C.
JANUARY 25, 2007
8:30
Welcome and Introductions
Committee Co-chairs
Harry T. Edwards, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Constantine Gatsonis, Director, Center for Statistical Studies, Brown University
8:45
Charge to Committee
David W. Hagy, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Policy
Coordination, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice and Principal Deputy Director, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice
9:10
Discussion
9:30
Importance of Study to the Forensics Community
Joe Polski, Chair, Consortium of Forensic Science Organizations
9:45
Discussion
10:15
Current State of Forensics: Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Labs
Joseph L. Peterson, Director and Professor, School of Criminal Justice and Criminalistics, California State University, Los Angeles
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Matthew J. Hickman, U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
10:45
Discussion
11:15
Overview of Forensics Training and Education
Max M. Houck, Director, Forensic Science Initiative and Director, Forensic Business Development, College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University
Larry Quarino, Assistant Professor, Cedar Crest College
12:00
Discussion
12:15
Lunch
1:00
Daily Operations of Forensic Labs
Joseph A. DiZinno, Assistant Director, Laboratory Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Jan L. Johnson, Laboratory Director, Forensic Science Center at Chicago, Illinois State Police
Irma Rios, Assistant Director, City of Houston Crime Lab
2:15
Discussion
3:00
National Institute of Justice Research Program and Budget— Future Needs and Priorities
John Morgan, Deputy Director for Science and Technology, National Institute of Justice, DOJ
3:20
Discussion
3:45
Views from the Major Forensic Science Organizations: Issues and Challenges
Bruce A. Goldberger, President-Elect, American Academy of Forensic Sciences
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Bill Marbaker, President, American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors
Robert Stacey, President, American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors, Laboratory Accreditation Board
Arthur Eisenberg, Board Member, Forensic Quality Services
Joe Polski, Chief Operations Officer, International Association for Identification
James Downs, Board Member and Chair, Government Affairs Committee, National Association of Medical Examiners
5:00
Discussion
5:30
Adjourn
JANUARY 26, 2007
8:30
Opportunities for Improvement: Critical Areas
Michael Risinger, Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School
Peter Neufeld, Co-founder and Co-director, The Innocence Project
David Stoney, Chief Scientist, Stoney Forensic, Inc.
9:30
Discussion
10:00
Adjourn
MEETING 2
WASHINGTON, D.C.
APRIL 23, 2007
8:00
Welcome and Introductions
Harry T. Edwards and Constantine Gatsonis Committee Co-chairs
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Essential Elements of Science: Hypotheses, Falsifiability, Replication, Peer Review
Alan I. Leshner, Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science
The Science of Statistics: Error Testing, Probabilities, Observer Bias
Jay Kadane, Senior Statistician, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
9:00
Discussion
9:20
Forensic DNA
Science
Robin Cotton, Director, Biomedical Forensic Sciences Program, Boston University School of Medicine
Policy and Politics
Chris Asplen, Vice President, Gordon Thomas Honeywell Government Affairs and former Executive Director, U.S. Attorney General’s National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence
10:10
Discussion
10:45
The Science of Forensic Disciplines
What is the state of the art? Where is research conducted?
Where is it published? What is the scientific basis that informs the interpretation of the evidence? Where are new developments coming from? What are the major problems in the scientific foundation or methods and in the practice? What research questions would you like to have answered?
Moderator: Constantine Gatsonis, Committee Co-Chair
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Drug Identification
Joseph P. Bono, Laboratory Director, Forensic Services Division, U.S. Secret Service
11:15
Discussion
11:45
Lunch
12:30
Pattern Evidence with Fingerprints and Toolmarks as Illustrations
Fingerprints
Ed German, Latent Print Examiner, U.S. Army, Retired
Toolmarks
Peter Striupaitis, Chair, International Association for Identification, Firearm/Toolmark Committee and Member, Scientific Working Group for Firearms and Toolmarks (SWGGUN)
1:30
Discussion
2:00
Trace Evidence with Arson and Hair as Illustrations
Arson
John Lentini, Scientific Fire Analysis, LLC
Hair
Max M. Houck, Director, Forensic Science Initiative and Director, Forensic Business Development, College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University
3:00
Discussion
3:45
Forensic Odontology: Bite Marks
David R. Senn, Director, Center for Education and Research in Forensics and Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Dental Diagnostic Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
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4:10
Discussion
4:30
Commentators
Robert E. Gaensslen, Head of Program in Forensic Science, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jennifer Mnookin, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles Law School
David Kaye, Regents’ Professor of Law and Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
5:15
Comments from the Floor
5:45
Adjourn
APRIL 24, 2007
8:00
Welcome and Introductions
Harry T. Edwards and Constantine Gatsonis Committee Co-chairs
8:10
From Crime Scene to Courtroom: The Collection and Flow of Evidence
Barry A. J. Fisher, Director, Scientific Services Bureau, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and former President, American Academy of Forensic Sciences
8:45
Discussion
9:15
Practice and Standards: Scientific Working Groups
What is the process for establishing the guidelines and standards?
What are the guidelines/standards for each of these disciplines?
How is quality control/quality assurance monitored and enforced? What recommendations have these organizations made and have they been implemented? What is needed?
Moderator: Harry T. Edwards, Committee Co-chair
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9:20
Drug Identification
Nelson A. Santos, Drug Enforcement Administration and Chair, Scientific Working Group for the Analysis of Seized Drugs (SWGDRUG)
9:40
Discussion
10:00
Pattern Evidence: Latent Prints
Stephen B. Meagher, Fingerprint Specialist, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Vice-Chair, Scientific Working Group on Friction Ridge Analysis, Study and Technology (SWGFAST)
10:30
Discussion
11:00
Trace Evidence: Hair Analysis
Richard E. Bisbing, Executive Vice President, McCrone Associates, Inc. and member, Scientific Working Group on Materials Analysis (SWGMAT)
11:20
Discussion
11:45
Commentators
Paul C. Giannelli, Weatherhead Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Carol Henderson, Director, National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law and Professor of Law, Stetson University
Michael J. Saks, Professor of Law & Psychology and Faculty Fellow, Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
12:30
Comments from the Floor
1:00
Adjourn
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MEETING 3
WASHINGTON, D.C.
JUNE 5, 2007
8:15
Welcome and Introductions
Harry T. Edwards and Constantine Gatsonis Committee Co-chairs
8:30
Forensic Sciences: Issues and Direction
Bruce Budowle, Senior Scientist, Laboratory Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation
9:30
Challenges for Crime Laboratories: City, County, and Private
Peter Pizzola, Director, New York Police Department Crime Laboratory
John Collins, Director, DuPage County Sheriff’s Office Crime Laboratory
John E. Moalli, Group Vice President and Principal Engineer, Exponent
11:00
Emerging Issues: Cybercrime, fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and Lie Detection, and Photographic Comparison Analysis
Eric Friedberg, Co-president, Stroz Friedberg, LLC
Hank Greely, Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law, Stanford University
Richard W. Vorder Bruegge, Supervisory Photographic Technologist-Examiner of Questioned Photographic Evidence, Federal Bureau of Investigation
12:30
Working Lunch: Continuation of Morning Session
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Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) Interoperability
John Onstwedder III, Statewide AFIS Coordinator for the Forensic Sciences Command, Forensic Science Center at Chicago, Illinois State Police
Peter T. Higgins, Principal Consultant, The Higgins-Hermansen Group
Peter D. Komarinski, Komarinski & Associates, LLC
2:15
Medical Examiner System
Randy Hanzlick, Chief Medical Examiner, Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Center, Fulton County, Georgia and Professor of Forensic Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine
James Downs, Board Member and Chair, Governmental Affairs Committee, National Association of Medical Examiners; Vice Chair, Consortium of Forensic Science Organizations; Coastal Regional Medical Examiner, Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Garry F. Peterson, Chief Medical Examiner Emeritus, Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office, Minnesota; Chair, Standards, Inspection and Accreditation Committee and Standards Subcommittee and Past President, National Association of Medical Examiners
Victor W. Weedn, Medical Examiner
4:15
Comments from the Floor
5:00
Adjourn
MEETING 4
WOODS HOLE, MASSACHUSETTS
SEPTEMBER 20, 2007
1:30
Welcome
Harry T. Edwards and Constantine Gatsonis Committee Co-chairs
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Lessons Learned From the Houston Police Department Investigation
Michael R. Bromwich, Independent Investigator, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
2:45
200 Exonerations: A Look at the Cases Involving Faulty Forensic Evidence
Brandon L. Garrett, Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia
Peter Neufeld, Co-Founder and Co-Director, The Innocence Project
4:15
Ethics in Forensic Science
Peter D. Barnett, Partner, Forensic Science Associates
5:00
Reducing Error Rates: A New Institutional Arrangement for Forensic Science
Roger G. Koppl, Director, Institute for Forensic Science Administration, Fairleigh Dickinson University
6:00
Adjourn
SEPTEMBER 21, 2007
8:15
Welcome
Harry T. Edwards and Constantine Gatsonis Committee Co-chairs
8:20
The U.K. Forensics System
Carole McCartney, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds
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The Role of Forensics in Homeland Security
Charles Cooke, Bio-Specialist, Office of the Deputy Director for Strategy and Evaluation, National Counterproliferation Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
James Burans, Bioforensics Program Manager, National Bioforensics Analysis Center, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Larry Chelko, Director, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
Rick Tontarski, Chief, Forensic Analysis Division, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
11:00
Forensics at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Michael D. Garris, Image Group Manager, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Barbara Guttman, Line Manager, National Software Reference Library, National Institute of Standards and Technology
William MacCrehan, Research Chemist, Analytical Chemistry Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
12:20
Adjourn
MEETING 5
WASHINGTON, D.C.
DECEMBER 6, 2007
8:15
Welcome and Introductions
Harry T. Edwards and Constantine Gatsonis Committee Co-chairs
8:30
Scientific Working Group on Friction Ridge Analysis, Study and Technology (SWGFAST)
Glenn Langenburg, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
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9:15
Fingerprint Source Book
John Morgan, Deputy Director for Science and Technology, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice
9:45
International Association of Identification: Key Issues
Kenneth F. Martin, Crime Scene Services, Massachusetts State Police
10:30
Forensic Science Issues at the U.S. Secret Service
Vici Inlow, Forensic Services Division, U.S. Secret Service
Deborah Leben, Forensic Services Division, U.S. Secret Service
11:10
Contextual Bias
Itiel Dror, School of Psychology, University of Southampton
12:00
Lunch
1:00
The Coroner System
Michael Murphy, Las Vegas Office of the Coroner
1:50
Survey of Non-Traditional Forensic Service Providers
Tom Witt, Bureau of Business and Economic Research, College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University
2:30
Department of Defense Latent Print Analysis
Thomas Cantwell, Senior Forensic Analyst, Biometric Task Force and Leader, Forensic Integrated Product Team, U.S. Department of Defense
3:15
Comments from the Floor
3:45
Adjourn
