OSAC Subcommittee on Friction Ridge

Pat · Post by **Pat** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 7:05 am

Twenty members have been announced for the "OSAC Subcommittee on Friction Ridge." This group will replace SWGFAST in writing standards for the practice of latent print examination. Half of the members of this subcommittee were members of SWGFAST, so there should be some continuity in the direction SWGFAST was taking the science.

I urge all readers of this forum to keep up with the workings of this new group. Do not hesitate to contact any of them with your questions, concerns, or comments regarding the way you think a latent print unit should operate, or the way you think things should be done on an individual level. These good folks will determine how we do fingerprints for decades to come. They need all the help they can get to ensure their decisions incorporate the best practices of science, while also reflecting the consensus of those of us working in the field.

See the list of "OSAC Subcommittee on Friction Ridge" at http://www.nist.gov/forensics/osac/sub- ... -ridge.cfm

OSAC Subcommittee on Friction Ridge

The Subcommittee on Friction Ridge will focus on standards and guidelines related to forensic examination of fingerprints, palm prints, and footprints made through impressions. Initial members, appointed in October 2014, are:

Melissa Gische, Subcommittee Chair, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation

Rachelle Babler, San Diego (California) Police Department

John Black, Black and White Forensics, LLC

Kerrie Cathcart, Target Forensic Services Laboratory

Heidi Eldridge, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

Michael French, MorphoTrak, LLC

Edward German, U.S. Federal Government

Hariharan Iyer, Ph.D., U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology

Louis Kriel, Georgia Bureau of Investigation

Mark Mills, Onondaga County (New York) Center for Forensic Sciences

Eric Ray, Arizona Department of Public Safety

Alison Rees, U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Andrew Reitnauer, Nassau County (New York) Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Latent Print Section

Maria Antonia Roberts, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory

Matthew Schwarz, Schwarz Forensic Enterprises, Inc.

Carl Speckels, City of Phoenix (Arizona) Crime Laboratory

Henry Swofford, U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Forensic Science Center

Elham Tabassi, U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology

Maria Weir, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

Lisa Zinn, Orange County (California) Sheriff's Crime Laboratory