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.

William Trenkle, Ph.D., SAC Vice Chair, United States Department of Agriculture

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 (USACIL)

John Ellis, Law Offices of John C. Ellis, Jr., Inc., Legal Task Group Representative

Carina Hahn, National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), Human Factors Task Group Representative

Abhyuday Mandal, University of Georgia, Statistics Task Group Representative

Lawrence Potier, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Quality Task Group Representative

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.