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    The ASCLD Drama Map-UPDATED

    on October 16, 2011 by Amy Driver in AAFS, ASCLD, CFSO, NFSTC, Comments (0)

    UPDATED- Updated to include the fact that Kevin Lothridge is also a past-president of ASCLD and provide links to the website of the Forensic Innovation Center. OK… Let’s see if […]

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    So, The CFSO is Circling the Drain…-UPDATED

    on September 18, 2011 by Amy Driver in AAFS, Accreditation, ASCLD, CFSO, Forensic Reform, Legislation, NAS Report, Comments (1)

    UPDATED, 10/03/2011- Someone from FQS contacted me to inform me that FQS has pulled out of the CFSO. The CFSO’s website has now been updated. Things aren’t going so well […]

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    Adina Schwartz a No-Show at AAFS

    on February 24, 2011 by Amy Driver in AAFS, Adina Schwartz, Charlatans, Comments (4)

    So, here I am at AAFS all ready to see Adina Schwartz explain her views and answer questions defending her position. And I wasn’t the only one. There were lots […]

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    The Unraveling, Part 3: The Barry Fisher Problem

    on February 18, 2011 by Amy Driver in AAFS, Accreditation, ASCLD, CFSO, Forensic Reform, Comments (0)

    Barry Fisher isn’t just a problem for the AAFS or FQS or the ASCLDs or the CFSO or any of the many, many other organizations that he is a part […]

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    Struggles and Blindness in the AAFS, Part 2

    on February 15, 2011 by Amy Driver in AAFS, ASCLD, Charlatans, Forensic Reform, NAS Report, Comments (0)

    In my last

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    Struggles and Blindness in the AAFS, Part 1

    on February 11, 2011 by Amy Driver in AAFS, ASCLD, CFSO, Forensic Reform, NAS Report, Comments (1)

    With the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) starting in just a few days, I feel it necessary to touch on a few points for […]

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    ASCLD & The Gang and Mandy Locke: Thank You For This. Really.

    on November 22, 2010 by Amy Driver in AAFS, ASCLD, N&O, Comments (0)

    Something really, really great did come out of that inadequate, nonsensical article in which Mandy Locke and Joe Neff let ASCLD & The Gang off the hook for all their […]

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    What the NAS Report Was Supposed To Say: The Lobbyist, The Senator, and ASCLD’s War Against Its Own

    on September 1, 2010 by Amy Driver in AAFS, Accreditation, ASCLD, Forensic Reform, LAPD, Legislation, NAS Report, Comments (1)

    Unraveling the moves made by the Consortium of Forensic Science Organizations (CFSO) and those involved in its member organizations surrounding the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Report titled “Strengthening Forensic […]

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    The ASCLD Empire, Part 1: Miracle Off Interstate 40

    on August 26, 2010 by Amy Driver in AAFS, ASCLD, Ken Melson, Comments (0)

    The American Society of Crime Lab Directors (ASCLD), its laboratory accreditation body, ASCLD/LAB, and its for-profit consulting group, ASCLD Consulting, have driven much of the turmoil and ugliness that has […]

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    Where That Forensic Reform Draft Legislation Came From

    on August 11, 2010 by Amy Driver in AAFS, ASCLD, Forensic Reform, Legislation, NAS Report, Comments (0)

    In my last post I asked forensic scientists if they knew who was speaking for them because it has a lot to do with what is going on right now […]

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