The Footwear & Tire Subcommittee focuses on standards and guidelines related to the detection, documentation, recovery, examination and comparison of footwear and tire evidence.
Forensic footwear and/or tire examiners undertake the following tasks: documenting, collecting and preserving footwear and tire evidence, and comparing and analyzing footwear or tire impressions. Examiners provide expert opinions regarding source conclusions, determine the manufacturer, make, or model of the source of a questioned impression, compare questioned impressions, make, or model of an item of footwear or tire from an image or video, and write reports and provide testimony.
Officers | Members | Standards | Discipline-Specific Baseline Documents | Research & Development Needs | Presentations
David Kanaris, Subcommittee Chair, Alaska Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory
Rodney Schenck, Subcommittee Vice Chair, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Christopher Hamburg, Subcommittee Executive Secretary, ANSI National Accreditation Board (Quality Representative)
Clay Allred, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Kacey Amorello, Louisiana State Police Crime Laboratory
Sarah Bohne, Colorado Springs Police Department
John Grassel, Rhode Island State Police
Martin Herman, Ph.D., National Institute of Standards and Technology
Brian Juengst, Maine State Police
Anthony Koertner, Defense Forensic Science Center
Mathew Marvin, Ron Smith and Associates, Inc.
Troy Mohror, Johnson County Sheriff's Office Criminalistics Laboratory
Heidi Prough, Michigan State Police
Lisa Ragaza, State of Connecticut
Matt Redle, Sheridan County Prosecuting Attorney's Office (Legal Representative)
Nicole Richetelli, Noblis
David Spadoni, Florida Department of Law Enforcement
Aimee Stevens, Illinois State Police Division of Forensic Services
Natasha Wheatley, ADA County Sheriff's Office
Alicia Wilcox, Ph.D., Thomas College (Human Factors Representative)
The Forensic Science Standards Board (FSSB) has provided the opportunity for OSAC subcommittees to identify baseline documents and reference materials that best reflect the current state of the practice within their respective disciplines.
These documents contain practical information regarding these disciplines that can help forensic scientists, judges, lawyers, researchers, other interested parties and the general public, to better understand the nature, scope, and foundations of the individual disciplines as they are currently practiced.
It is important to note that the identification of these documents in this venue does not represent an endorsement by OSAC or NIST. Only documents that are posted on the OSAC Registry constitute OSAC endorsement. All copyrights for these documents are reserved by their owners. Subcommittee position statements or responses to data collections by the subcommittee represent the consensus opinion of the subcommittee, not necessarily the position of the entire OSAC organization or NIST.
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