IAI Board of Directors Meeting (from IAI Update by J Polski)
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:58 pm
Board Meeting – Morgantown, West Virginia
The long delayed mid-year board meeting was held on June 21 and 22 in Morgantown, West Virginia. The meeting was sponsored by West Virginia University (WVU) through Max Houck and his staff. Our heartfelt thanks to Max and his staff for their superb support of that meeting.
A few highlights of the meeting follow.
• The board approved a few changes to the master certification board policy manual, the bulk of which was approved in St. Louis last summer. Vici Inlow, Chair of the Certification Board Quality Assurance Committee is heading up that effort. The final changes will be approved by the board in August and the new policies will go into full effect shortly after that.
• The board considered a proposal to allow students to take the knowledge portion of the Crime Scene Certification test and obtain full certification after fulfilling the experience requirement for certification. The board found sufficient merit to the proposal to direct further study of the matter and another review in August in Dallas.
• The board also reviewed matters involving the Mayfield/Madrid bombing case. The results with respect to the certification of the individuals involved will be published in the September/October JFI. It should be noted that the individuals involved in that incident are no longer certified as Latent Print Examiners by the IAI.
• Bill Tilstone from Forensic Quality Services (FQS) addressed the board with a proposal to enter into an agreement between FQS and the IAI to develop and market an accreditation program for fingerprint units not located in traditional crime laboratories. At this time, if an administrator of an Identification Unit, Fingerprint Unit or other non-laboratory unit doing fingerprint identification wants to implement a quality system, there is none available. ASCLD-LAB does not offer that kind of service. After Bill’s presentation the board voted to continue to explore this proposal and turned it over to the Management Committee headed up by Norm Smith. That committee will work with FQS to develop the specifics of the program and report back to the board.
The board had the opportunity to tour the WVU Library and view the IAI’s Library collection which is now in the possession of the WVU Library. To a person the board was very, very impressed with the library and its handling of the IAI collection. Very little of the collection will be placed into circulation with almost all of it being in restricted area with checkout not allowed. A good number of materials will be housed in a rare collection area under maximum security. In order to view these materials an individual must show identification and sign into a secure room. We are confident the WVU library will be a good site to maintain the IAI’s collection for many years to come.
The master plan for this collection is to enter all materials into the WVU electronic card catalog so anyone will have access to search for these titles even though most of the collection will not be eligible to be loaned out.
The long delayed mid-year board meeting was held on June 21 and 22 in Morgantown, West Virginia. The meeting was sponsored by West Virginia University (WVU) through Max Houck and his staff. Our heartfelt thanks to Max and his staff for their superb support of that meeting.
A few highlights of the meeting follow.
• The board approved a few changes to the master certification board policy manual, the bulk of which was approved in St. Louis last summer. Vici Inlow, Chair of the Certification Board Quality Assurance Committee is heading up that effort. The final changes will be approved by the board in August and the new policies will go into full effect shortly after that.
• The board considered a proposal to allow students to take the knowledge portion of the Crime Scene Certification test and obtain full certification after fulfilling the experience requirement for certification. The board found sufficient merit to the proposal to direct further study of the matter and another review in August in Dallas.
• The board also reviewed matters involving the Mayfield/Madrid bombing case. The results with respect to the certification of the individuals involved will be published in the September/October JFI. It should be noted that the individuals involved in that incident are no longer certified as Latent Print Examiners by the IAI.
• Bill Tilstone from Forensic Quality Services (FQS) addressed the board with a proposal to enter into an agreement between FQS and the IAI to develop and market an accreditation program for fingerprint units not located in traditional crime laboratories. At this time, if an administrator of an Identification Unit, Fingerprint Unit or other non-laboratory unit doing fingerprint identification wants to implement a quality system, there is none available. ASCLD-LAB does not offer that kind of service. After Bill’s presentation the board voted to continue to explore this proposal and turned it over to the Management Committee headed up by Norm Smith. That committee will work with FQS to develop the specifics of the program and report back to the board.
The board had the opportunity to tour the WVU Library and view the IAI’s Library collection which is now in the possession of the WVU Library. To a person the board was very, very impressed with the library and its handling of the IAI collection. Very little of the collection will be placed into circulation with almost all of it being in restricted area with checkout not allowed. A good number of materials will be housed in a rare collection area under maximum security. In order to view these materials an individual must show identification and sign into a secure room. We are confident the WVU library will be a good site to maintain the IAI’s collection for many years to come.
The master plan for this collection is to enter all materials into the WVU electronic card catalog so anyone will have access to search for these titles even though most of the collection will not be eligible to be loaned out.