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Ask Joe...Each month, IAPE's primary instructor and Executive Director, Joe Latta, answers one of your questions pertaining to your everyday property and evidence room questions.
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Dear Joe,
Our agency is on the cusp of purchasing Axon body cameras. The program they use to download bodycam footage is called Evidence.com. A misleading title, which is causing confusion in my agency. My definition of evidence has been a tangible item we can manage, not a bunch of body camera footage stored in the cloud, which may or may not be used as evidence in a criminal investigation.
Interested in your thoughts on the matter.
Thank You,
Kari
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Dear Kari,
I have forwarded you question to our new Board Member Alexus Grochmal who has a
Master's in Cybersecurity and Networking from Old Dominion University. She is currently obtaining her Ph.D. in Cybersecurity from Marymount University. I guessing she will have an great answer.
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Hi Kari, yes, I'm familiar with the Evidence.com platform and can understand her frustration with the
verbiage and its lack of tangible property. But unfortunately, this is a common concern among those
venturing into this new technology.
It depends on the state and the locality where you are employed; an excellent place to start is looking at the legislative retention records on video footage, such as the footage being recorded. Many states still treat this type of data similarly to documents under the control of a records section, such as fingerprintcards and reports.
Footage from police officer body-worn cameras and dashboard cameras is often admitted at trial to
corroborate an officers version of the circumstances surrounding an arrest. To that end, state and federal courts have acknowledged that this type of footage helps verify an officer's testimony and can be admissible in a court proceeding similar to tangible property. Now, it does not need to fall under the purview of the Property and Evidence section. However, we recommend that you set limits on retention and have employees who can extract that data if it is presented as evidence in a trial and is familiar with the platform for redaction and deletion procedures. With the Evidence.com platform, this can be downloaded and saved on a physical device and/or shared with the prosecution team. And depending on your policy and procedure regarding USB and or external hard drive devices, this may be admitted to the property section as evidence before the court proceeding if deemed necessary. Ultimately, we all see how the digital age affects how we view and retain evidence for future proceedings in cases and trials.
And similar to our property rooms, we must have policies to review this video footage and purge this data,
or you will eventually have a space problem.
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V/r,
Alexis Grochmal
International Association for Property and Evidence
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Celebrating our 30th Anniversary with you by hosting 30 classes
across the country in 2023!
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World Class Training in “Best-Practices” For
Evidence & Property Room Management
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We offer dozens of classes per year across the U.S. and Canada, taught by current and former law enforcement officials with extensive real-world experience in management of property and evidence. This two-day course is ideal for those responsible for, or actively involved in, the operation, supervision or management of a Property and Evidence Unit. All training topics address best business practices and professional standards.
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COMMENTARY:
If you follow our news stories that are posted on the IAPE’s home page you may recall several
postings about the Nebraska State Patrol back in October 2021 where a longtime employee was
arrested along with her boyfriend for stealing $1.2 million in drugs. While at the same, there
were a significant number of fatal overdoses in the community. Looking back in our library of
bad conduct for decades this may be one of the largest we have recorded.
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Man federally charged in connection to drugs
stolen from NSP locker takes plea deal
LINCOLN, Neb. — A Lincoln man facing federal charges related to drugs stolen from a Nebraska State Patrol evidence room has taken a plea deal.
March 17, 2023
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Officials said Weaver's girlfriend, Anna Idigima, 37, of Lincoln, was a Nebraska State Patrol employee who worked in the evidence unit when the drugs were stolen from anevidence storage facility. She then allegedly gave them to Weaver to sell.
George Weaver Jr., 37, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and fentanyl. In exchange for his plea, additional counts of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, as well as distributing a cocaine and fentanyl mixture resulting in serious bodily
injury will be dismissed at sentencing.
Officials said Weaver's girlfriend, Anna Idigima, 37, of Lincoln, was a Nebraska State Patrol employee who worked in the evidence unit when the drugs were stolen from an evidence storage facility. She then allegedly gave them to Weaver to sell.
The stolen drugs have been traced to drug deaths and have led prosecutors to drop cases. Last month, Idigma, 37, pleaded guilty to a federal charge of distributing and possessing cocaine and fentanyl.
Weaver is scheduled to be sentenced on June 16, while Idigima is scheduled to be sentenced on May 25. Both face mandatory minimum prison sentences of 20 years in prison with a maximum of life. There is no parole in the federal system.
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Become a Certified Evidence Specialist
Along with the IAPE's extensive evidence training courses, the IAPE offers our members the opportunity to become Certified Property and Evidence Specialists.
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