Dear ASCLD Colleagues and Friends,
You all are going to think I am “pulling your leg”, but for the second weekend in a row, I have found myself sitting in my car outside a hockey rink. This week I am in beautiful Minnesota with my family and some wonderful hockey parents and children. Of course, as I drink my coffee and wait to go in, I am also thinking about all the things I have lined up for next week at work! I don’t know about you all, but it always seems like May is a really busy month. It is going to get a lot busier for all of us as the grants have been posted, and I was asked to spread the good word to you all. See the links here:
Deadline Grants.gov 6/22/2022 and JustGrants 6/27/2022
Deadline Grants.gov 6/22/2022 and JustGrants 6/28/2022
Deadline Grants.gov 6/18/2022 and JustGrants 7/12/2022
NIST posted their draft review of the methods used in digital forensics. This is the second in the “Foundations” series after the DNA publication. It is open for comment until July 11, 2022, so be sure to let your subject matter expert’s know so we can ensure our practitioners get those comments in. NIST will be hosting a webinar on the report and it’s findings on June 1, 2022, which by my calculations, is right around the corner. The link below takes you to the webinar registration and comments link.
As if all this great information wasn’t enough, I must announce that our officers were voted on last week by the ASCLD Board of Directors. Please join me in welcoming:
Timothy Kupferschmid (NY OCME) as your ASCLD President-Elect
Scott Ford (Midwest Reginal Forensic) as your ASCLD Treasurer
Jeff Nye (Michigan State Police) as your ASCLD Secretary
Congratulations to each of you! I know our ASCLD Board aims to serve the membership well and I am very grateful and excited for our officers to carry on that charge as well. The Committee Chairs have been setting up meetings and reaching out to committee members last week and that will continue this week. If you are still pondering how you can help or what is a good fit for you please reach out. Further, if you are a member and you have a leader in your organization that is not a member, please encourage them to join us!
I hope everyone has an amazing week and hopefully you get some things taken care of on your list. Until next time, friends!
With gratitude,
Jen
Jennifer D. Naugle
ASCLD President
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ASCLD monthly board meeting
The next Board of Directors meeting date will be on May 20th at 1pm CST. If you are interested in attending, please reach out to Executive Director John Byrd.
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Weekly News and Resources |
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ASCLD FRC News!!!
The ASCLD Forensic Research Committee (FRC) is pleased to announce a new submission within the Collaboration Hub. As you may know, the purpose of the Collaboration Hub is to create a directory to connect researchers with ongoing projects to practitioners who are willing to participate in the studies or support the research. It is ASCLD’s hope that this program will further communication and cooperation between forensic researchers and practitioners.
Recently, a new project was added to the Collaboration Hub involving the designing and prototyping of EviHunter, a suite of automated Android app analysis tools to analyze and discover Android-app-generated evidential data (i.e., forensic artifacts), stored in local storage, SQLite database, and/or at a remote third-party server. The researchers are working with NIST to build a catalog-like Android app forensic artifact database, which will host the forensic evidential artifacts (e.g., type, location, and data format) that mobile apps generated and stored on the mobile devices or remote servers. They are creating a public web portal to allow digital evidence investigators to query the database and obtain the list of evidential artifacts for the app of interest in a casework.
The CSAFE team at ISU has developed and made public a reference dataset, StegoAppDB, which is comprised of more than 960,000 highly-provenanced image data. The next generation of algorithms for detecting hidden images will rely on deep learning algorithms with millions of free parameters. They propose to add image data selectively to enhance the attractiveness of StegoAppDB for wider use in the forensic imaging community. The support they are requesting is availability to discuss the issues with steganography/digital image forensics the crime lab currently has or is looking to address in the future.
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Please send all CLM submissions to our new electronic form!
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Please continue to tag your photos on social media with the hashtag #ASCLDfun |
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There are many standards open for comment on the ASB website. Be sure to check them out and provide your valuable input!
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Safety Topics for your Lab |
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Health and Safety in the Laboratory series by Jane Northup PhD, RI State Crime Laboratory
Click on links below for articles
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ANAB Trainings
With the ability to reach wider audiences, we are expanding offerings of current courses in Spanish.
The following courses will be available live online in Spanish:
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Forensic Technical Assessor
- Forensic ISO/IEC 17025 Internal Auditor
- Risk-based Thinking for Forensic Service Providers
We are also excited to introduce our courses: Laboratories and Inspection:
Basic Statistics for Laboratories and Inspection Bodies. This course will introduce basic statistical techniques for collecting, organizing, analyzing, interpreting, and presenting data. Participants will strengthen their knowledge base of statistical techniques and their application to ISO/IEC 17020 and ISO/IEC 17025, and build confidence in the validity and reliability of their results. More..
Verification and Validation for Laboratories and Inspection Bodies. This course provides an introduction to the validation and verification of analytical methods and the common elements of a validation or verification plan. In addition, a general approach to performing a validation or verification will be reviewed along with ISO/IEC 17025 requirements for validation and verification of methods. More…
Webinars:
We continue our monthly Webinars and stay tuned for information about upcoming Feature Sessions.
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Donations to ASCLD can now be made online! This is a great way to honor the memory of a forensic colleague, to commemorate a life event for that person who has everything, or to otherwise assist in supporting the tireless efforts of the ASCLD organization in the pursuit of excellence in forensic science management. The donation page can be accessed by clicking HERE or by visiting the ASCLD website and clicking on "Donate to ASCLD" under the "Member Site" tab (this donation page is accessible even to non-members). Please consider donating and do share this information with anyone you think might be interested.
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The American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors
65 Glen Road, Suite 123
Garner, NC 27529
Phone: 919.773.2044
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