Archive for the ‘Forensics’ Category

Center Issues Guide On Police Response To Mentally-Ill People

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

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Podcasts from 2010 H.F. Guggenheim conference

Monday, March 15th, 2010
1. Welcome
2. Story Lab
3. Toobin and Awards Ceremony
4. Panel 2- Fiscal Crisis
5. Panel 3- Journalism Workshop 
6. Panel 4- Juvenile Justice
7. Panel 5- Rethinking Courts
8. Breakout 1- Mentall Ill Offenders
9. Breakout 2- Racial Bias
10. J-Workshop Story Lab

100 D.C. Cases Checked For Possibly Falsified, Inaccurate FBI Tests

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

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Private Labs: Feds Could Speed Clearing DNA Analysis Backlog

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Private forensic laboratories argue that they could help cut the backlog of DNA evidence awaiting analysis in many states if an FBI requirement were eliminated or eased. Hundreds of thousands of “rape kits” remain untested because state and local crime laboratories are unable to handle the load, representatives of New Jersey-based Orchid Cellmark Inc. told leaders of criminal-justice organizations yesterday in Washington, D.C. The private lab says a major problem is an FBI rule that any evidence test contracted out by a public lab to a private one must undergo a “100% technical review,” which typically takes more than four hours per case. (more…)

After Exoneration, NC Examines Old Cases For Evidence Bias

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

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Leslie Balonick

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Senior Vice President

WestCare

(702) 385-2090

Nevada

leslie.balonick@westcare.com

Dr. James Austin

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

President

JFA Institute

Nevada

Asstin@aol.com

Gone Missing

Monday, March 1st, 2010

More than 100,000 people disappear every year in the U.S.  But there are few national tools to help anxious relatives locate their loved ones.

Casey King, 30, was juggling a newborn baby and two older children when her husband Jody went missing last April.  She had no doubt something was wrong. Jody, 28, adored his children—and it was hard to believe he would disappear voluntarily a few weeks after the birth of their third daughter.

But convincing law enforcement, public officials, and others  was a different matter.

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Sheriff’s Offices Using Eye Scanners To Stop Release Mistakes

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

A Baltimore inmate who bluffed his way out of prison probably wouldn’t have tricked guards if they had eye-scanners like those being installed at many jails, the Associated Press reports. The federal government is paying for the scanners to help build a nearly foolproof identification system to stop to such escapes. Raymond Taylor was serving three life sentences for shooting his ex-girlfriend and her two teenage daughters. He impersonated a cellmate last week and was released. He was arrested the next day in West Virginia. (more…)

Keith Armstrong, LCSW

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Director of Couples and Family Therapy

San Francisco Department of Veterans Affairs

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry

University of California, San Francisco

keith.armstrong@va.gov