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General Announcements
AUGUST 1st DEADLINE FOR BRIGGS WHITE AWARD NOMINATIONS (link below)
Below please find all of the forms and information you will need to register for this year's symposium in Baltimore. If you have any problems with the online registration, please contact Cindy at office@ascld.org or by phone at 919-773-2044. General Symposium and Workshop Registration Announcement and Workshop Schedule Nominations for the Briggs White Award are due by August 1.
Quick LinksAugust 2-6 and 9-13, 2010 at Suffolk University in Boston
News around the globe
Law-enforcement experts said iPhone technology records a wealth of information that can be tapped more easily than BlackBerry and Android devices to help police learn where you've been, what you were doing there and whether you've got something to hide.
Forensic Experts Identify Grim Sleeper Serial Killer Suspect Through ...
California In less than two years, a new and controversial DNA searching program launched by Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. has proven its worth by nabbing a man suspected of being the “Grim Sleeper” who carried out the murders of at least 10 women in the Los Angeles area over the past 25 years. NM agency taking over DNA testing for database
New Mexico The Department of Public Safety says it plans to speed up the availability to law enforcement of DNA information about crime suspects by taking over DNA analysis for a statewide database. The key break in the investigation, intermittently conducted over 25 years, came when investigators found a close — but not perfect — match between the DNA recovered at multiple crime scenes and a man being held in a California prison.
Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office will work with Mexican government on unsolved cases
California The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office has a new partnership with the Mexican government that will utilize forensic science in an effort to match names to some of the 40 cases involving unidentified human remains and missing people in the county. Fearing that youngsters may learn how to eliminate evidence after committing a crime, the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) at Kalina has banned student visits organized by colleges and schools in the city.
Can the database NamUs help find Tabitha Tuders?
United States The National Missing and Unidentified Person System, or NamUS, is the new technological tool for solving missing persons cases in the United States. United States
Last summer, the FDA issued draft guidance entitled "Incorporation of Physical-Chemical Identifiers (PCIDs) into Solid Oral Dosage Form Drug Products for Anti-Counterfeiting.” Ohio
Upgrades to Montgomery County’s Automated Fingerprint Identification System will enable law enforcement to rapidly identify and create digital records of suspects in the field using new mobile technology.
Arkansas considering statewide ban of K-2
Arkansas The Arkansas State Board of Health will consider a proposal to ban the sale of K-2, a synthetic marijuana product that is currently being sold legally in many parts of the state, because no existing state or federal law prevents its sale or use. MSU will study time needed to clear backlog of unprocessed rape test kits
Michigan A Michigan State University study may hold the key to processing 10,500 rape evidence kits never analyzed by the now-defunct Detroit Police crime laboratory and could lead to prosecution of hundreds, possibly thousands, of rapists. Revealing fake money Highlights in Chemical Science A simple and fast technique to examine the surface of banknotes and identify counterfeits has been developed by scientists in Brazil and the US.
West Virginia
The Appalachian Institute of Digital Evidence was started to serve as a resource to deal with digital evidence in both civil and criminal litigation.
Anthony Doesburg: Crime sleuths separate forensics
New Zealand Forensic Science International, a journal read by real crime scene investigators, has published a paper by United States researcher Evan Durnal that highlights the TV myths |
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