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Digital/Multimedia Scientific Area Committee

The Digital/Multimedia Scientific Area Committee (SAC) provides strategic direction, serves as a platform to integrate similar standards activities across multiple forensic science disciplines, and manages the activities of the following subcommittees:

Digital Evidence

Facial & Iris Identification

Video/Imaging Technology and Analysis

Members

Lora Sims, SAC Chair, Ideal Innovations, Inc.

Matthew Graves, SAC Vice Chair, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory

William Eber, Digital Evidence Subcommittee Chair, Private

Krystal Howard, Facial & Iris Identification Subcommittee Chair, Michigan Department of State – Office of Investigative Services

Christina Malone, Video/Imaging Technology and Analysis Subcommittee Chair, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory

John Ellis, SAC Member (Legal), Law Offices of John C. Ellis, Jr., Inc.

Carina Hahn, SAC Member (Human Factors), National Institute of Standards & Technology

Abhyuday Mandal, SAC Member (Statistics), University of Georgia

Lawrence Potier, SAC Member (Quality), Federal Bureau of Investigation

Documents

Guidance on Non-routine Offsite Forensic Examination of Digital/Multimedia Evidence

Standard Guide for Developing Discipline-Specific Methodology for ACE-V (currently at an SDO)

Presentations

Digging into the Source Opinion Standard, International Association for Identification (IAI) Educational Conference, August 2024

OSAC Public Update Meeting: Digital/Multimedia SAC Updates, September 2021

OSAC Public Update Meeting: Digital/Multimedia SAC Updates, June 2019. 

Created July 11, 2014, Updated November 17, 2025
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