Digital Evidence Quality Management—What Police Executives Need to Know

Monday, October 16, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PST

Location: Room: 1B

Submitter and Speaker(s)

Brandon Epstein

Detective
Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

Moderator(s)

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Tyler Wotring

Associate Vice President
National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C)

Speaker(s)

Barbara Guttman

Software Quality Group Manager
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
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Christopher Kelly

Digital Evidence Laboratory Director
Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Digital evidence plays a part in virtually all criminal investigations; effective handling of this evidence is paramount to identifying and prosecuting offenders. Since digital evidence does differ from other collected evidence, different approaches are needed to process and analyze digital devices and the data they contain. This panel of subject matter experts will leverage recently published research to discuss what law enforcement executives can do to improve digital forensic analyses through effective digital evidence quality management.