| Message
from the SWGIT Chair
January 1, 2003
Dear Colleague:
The Scientific
Working Group on Imaging Technologies (SWGIT) was created to provide
leadership to the law enforcement community by developing guidelines
for good practices for the use of imaging technologies in the criminal
justice system. With this edition of Forensic Science Communications,
we present one such document relating to those guidelines for your
review.
This document,
Recommendations and Guidelines for the
Use of Digital Image Processing in the Criminal Justice System,
was previously released as a draft in 2001 for public review and
comment. Based on the resulting feedback, we have revised the document
and now present a final version.
This document
represents the work of more than 30 photographers, scientists, instructors,
and managers from more than two dozen federal, state, and local
law enforcement agencies, as well as from the academic and research
communities. The document represents the consensus of opinion of
this membership and should not be construed as the official policy
of any one of the represented agencies.
A goal of the
SWGIT is to engage the entire law enforcement imaging community
in the development of these guidelines. Please review the document
carefully and give us your feedback. Click
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Thank you for
your consideration.
Sincerely,
Richard W. Vorder Bruegge
Chair, SWGIT
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