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:
Lora Sims, SAC Chair, Ideal Innovations, Inc.
William Trenkle, Ph.D., SAC Vice Chair, United States Department of Agriculture
Tracy Walraven, Digital Evidence Subcommittee Chair, Wells Fargo
Krystal Howard, Facial & Iris Identification Subcommittee Chair, Michigan State Police
Larry Kincaid, Speaker Recognition Subcommittee Chair, Sandia National Laboratory
Christina Malone, Video/Imaging Technology and Analysis Subcommittee Chair, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory (USACIL)
NIST recently funded a cooperative agreement to complete an interlaboratory study to assess the practical utility, accuracy and reproducibility of OSAC 2022-S-0001, Standard Guide for Image Comparison Opinions.
We are actively two cohorts of participants: 1) forensic practitioners who have been determined to be competent by their respective agency, organization, or other entity, and currently conduct forensic casework on face, hands, or clothing image comparisons; and 2) laypersons composed of individuals trained in forensic science but not image comparisons, undergraduate/graduate forensic science students, and the general public.
To learn more and register your interest, please fill out this Google form by February 29, 2024.