No major updates on the website this week. 

SWGFAST updates their website! 

Charlie Parker brought us a neat case from the good old days of Henry searching. 

SWGFAST has updated their site with the newly approved Standard for the Documentation of ACE-V and Standards for Minimum Qualifications and Training to Competency for Friction Ridge Examiners. They also have two new documents for comment: Standard Terminology of Friction Ridge Examination and Standard for the Validation and Performance Review of Friction Ridge Impression Development and Examination Techniques. Below, we focus on the newest addition to the SWGFAST website, introduced by the Chairperson, Lenny Butt:.
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Good Morning All,

At a recent meeting of SWGFAST Kasey Wertheim revealed a plethora of changes to our web site. After considerable work on his part the new site is now on line.

I am most excited about the development of a Community Resource Page. This represents a great opportunity for SWGFAST to provide assistance to anyone interested in the field of friction ridge examination. SWGFAST members frequent exchange information gathered from a multitude of sources in an effort to keep each other well informed in support of the work we are charged with performing. Much of the public information that we become aware of as a result of that exchange is then passed on to other colleagues. Unfortunately our personal email address books only contain contact information for a relative handful of those individuals that could use this information. Hopefully our new page will serve to eliminate this.

Members have been asked to review the reference materials that they have gathered over the years to determine what should be posted for the community. These could include training presentations, court decisions, articles, interesting cases, book reviews, etc.. This is not intended to be used as a platform for posting things such as, personal opinions, advertisements, or unproven theories/non-validated processes. Copyright concerns are something that we need to be mindful of as material is posted. In those instances where this is an issue our intent is to provide a brief abstract and information directing the reader to the material (website, publication, author, agency, etc.).

A Community Resource Committee has been established to solicit, receive, and review materials for posting. I would encourage individuals to submit materials to be considered for posting in support of the community. A link with the contact information for the committee is posted on the Community Resource of www.swgfast.org.

Best Regards,
Leonard Butt

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Until next Monday morning, don't work too hard or too little.

Have a GREAT week!