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SCAFO 27th Annual Training Conference 2 3 OFFICERS 2018 PRESIDENT MESSAGE FROM Cindee Lozano Fullerton Police Dept. (714) 738-3170 [email protected] CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Josie Mejia THE Los Angeles Sheriff’s Dept. (562) 345-4461 [email protected] FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Erika Jacobs Resources PRESIDENT Riverside County Sheriff’s Dept. (951) 329-9326 “Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in [email protected] which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to withohld his support from an SECOND VICE PRESIDENT organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.” Jessica Callinan San Diego County Sheriff’s Dept. - President Theodore Rossevelt, 1908 (760) 806-4188 [email protected] For subscription or membership information, or address corections contact: SECRETARY Dear SCAFO Members and Readers of the PRINT, Amy Rodriguez Riverside District Attorney’s Office SCAFO SCAFO Secretary - Amy Rodriguez As 2018 is coming to a close, there are so many things to The Executive Board completed the updates and revisions (951) 955-5533 be grateful for. I am excited to announce that thirty new members of the By-Laws and will start updating the Policy & Procedures in [email protected] 3960 Orange Street joined SCAFO throughout the year of 2018. I would like to 2019. TREASURER Riverside, CA 92501 encourage each and every member to consider getting involved by Sheri Orellana Pomona Police Dept. (Retired) (951) 955-5533 serving and becoming a member of the Executive Board. It’s a great I would like to offer a heartfelt “Thank You” to all the (909) 620-3726 [email protected] opportunity to get to know not only the members of SCAFO but to SCAFO members and the Executive Board for your support and [email protected] $25 yearly membership work closely with different organizations, surrounding agencies and for allowing me the opportunity to serve as President for such an SERGEANT AT ARMS other experts in the field. amazing organization. It has been a rewarding experience and Nicole Osborn helped me realize just how important each and everyone of YOU Los Angeles Police Department As noted in “About SCAFO”, “Our meetings and seminars are in keeping SCAFO a strong, well-respected organization that (213) 989-2163 CSDIAI CSDIAI Secretary-Treasurer [email protected] P.O. Box 299 feature exceptionally qualified speakers who provide training will continue to provide training and education for another 81 years! and updates on current issues and the latest technology”, and as DIRECTOR Pismo Beach, CA 93448 Denell Payne members, “we are always looking for any new developments in Warmest Regards Riverside County Sheriff’s Dept. [email protected] fingerprinting, photography , or scientific aids …” to pass on to fellow (951) 204-2403 $45 yearly membership members and co-workers from our various agencies. ~ Cindee Lozano [email protected] CALIFORNIA President DIRECTOR Glen Calhoun Speaking of trainings, the next meeting is scheduled for Kristine Duran IAI February 9, 2019 at The Old Spaghetti Factory, 1431 Buena Vista Carlsbad Police Dept. 2131 Hollywood Blvd. Suite 403 (760) 931-2205 St., Duarte, CA 91010, hosted by Senior Director, Angela Schouten [email protected] Hollywood, FL 33020 (Registration opens at 11:30). I would like to thank Angela for hosting DIRECTOR (954) 589-0628 our August 2018 Meeting which was held at The Crossings in Dianna Roque theiai.org/membership Carlsbad featuring Sgt. Mike Ernst, and his presentation “October 1, Riverside District Attorney’s Office $80 yearly membership / $45.00 Students 2017 Shooting at Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas”. Sgt. Ernst (951) 955-9331 shared his experience not only as one who attended the concert but [email protected] one who became a first responder to family, friends and those he DIRECTOR didn’t know that were involved in this devastating shooting. Then, Angela Schouten Carlsbad Police Dept. subsequently dealing with the after-effects on so many that were (619) 318-0603 involved either professionally or personally. [email protected] PARLIAMENTARIAN I would also like to thank Erika Jacobs, 1st Vice President Marvin Spreyne 2018 for hosting the 27th Annual Training Conference in the Riverside County DA Office (Retired) beautiful city of Palm Springs and for the extra help from the (760) 399-0783 [email protected] Executive Board in making this a successful conference. A big “Thank you” to the Vendors who not only provided the latest and HISTORIAN William F. Leo greatest in the new technology out today, but donated several door Los Angeles Sheriff’s Dept. (Retired) prizes to raffle at the conference. Also, to our speakers who provided (909) 247-7602 excellent presentations and workshops highlighting Fingerprint and [email protected] DNA cases, Homicide Cold Cases, Human Trafficking, Courtroom EDITOR Testimony Techniques, Lifting Latent Prints from Difficult Surfaces, Tony Nguyen Interviewing For a Promotion and “The Laci Peterson Murder”. Pomona Police Dept. (909) 802-7418 [email protected] Jessica Callinan, 2nd Vice President has scheduled the WEBMASTER upcoming 28th Annual Training Conference to be held October Jessica Callinan 2nd – 4th, 2019 at The Doubletree Mission Valley, 7450 Hazard San Diego County Sheriff’s Dept. Center Drive, San Diego, CA. The website is already set –up with (760) 806-4188 information about the conference and a link to make your hotel [email protected] reservation if you choose to stay at the hotel. WWW.SCAFO.ORG

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“CITIZENS DO NOT CONTEMPLATE WAIVING THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS WHEN USING NEW TECHNOLOGY.” Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/01/14/feds-cant-force-you-to-unlock-your-iphone-with-finger-or-face-judge-rules/#75a3562842b7

A California judge has ruled that American cops can’t force people to unlock a mobile phone with their face or Messenger communications, she suggested. Facebook has been willing to hand over such messages in a significant finger. The ruling goes further to protect people’s private lives from government searches than any before and is number of previous cases Forbes has reviewed. being hailed as a potentially landmark decision. LAW FINALLY CATCHING UP WITH TECH? Previously, U.S. judges had ruled that police were allowed to force unlock devices like Apple’s iPhone with biometrics, such as , faces or irises. That was despite the fact feds weren’t permitted to force a suspect Over recent years, the government has drawn criticism for its smartphone searches. In 2016, Forbes uncovered a search to divulge a passcode. But according to a ruling uncovered by Forbes, all logins are equal. warrant not dissimilar to the one in California. Again in the Golden State, the feds wanted to go onto a premises and force unlock devices with fingerprints, regardless of what phones or who was inside. The order came from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in the denial of a search warrant for an unspecified property in Oakland. The warrant was filed as part of an investigation into a Facebook extortion Andrew Crocker, senior staff attorney at the digital rights nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, said thelatest crime, in which a victim was asked to pay up or have an “embarassing” video of them publicly released. The cops California ruling went a step further than he’d seen other courts go. In particular, Westmore observed alphanumeric had some suspects in mind and wanted to raid their property. In doing so, the feds also wanted to open up any passcodes and biometrics served the same purpose in unlocking phones. phone on the premises via facial recognition, a fingerprint or an iris. “While that’s a fairly novel conclusion, it’s important that courts are beginning to look at these issues on their own While the judge agreed that investigators had shown probable cause to search the property, they didn’t have the terms,” Crocker told Forbes. “In its recent decisions, the Supreme Court has made clear that digital searches raise serious right to open all devices inside by forcing unlocks with biometric features. privacy concerns that did not exist in the age of physical searches—a full forensic search of a cellphone reveals far more than a patdown of a suspect’s pockets during an arrest for example.” On the one hand, magistrate judge Kandis Westmore ruled the request was “overbroad” as it was “neither limited to a particular person nor a particular device.” The magistrate judge decision could, of course, be overturned by a district court judge, as happened in Illinois in 2017 with a similar ruling. The best advice for anyone concerned about government overreach into their smartphones: Stick But in a more significant part of the ruling, Judge Westmore declared that the government did not have the right, to a strong alphanumeric passcode that you won’t be compelled to disclose.. even with a warrant, to force suspects to incriminate themselves by unlocking their devices with their biological features. Previously, courts had decided biometric features, unlike passcodes, were not “testimonial.” That was because a suspect would have to willingly and verbally give up a passcode, which is not the case with biometrics. Link to full document: A password was therefore deemed testimony, but body parts were not, and so not granted Fifth Amendment https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5684083-Judge-Says-Facial-Recognition-Unlocks-Not.html protections against self-incrimination.

That created a paradox: How could a passcode be treated differently to a finger or face, when any of the three could be used to unlock a device and expose a user’s private life?

And that’s just what Westmore focused on in her ruling. Declaring that “technology is outpacing the law,” the judge wrote that fingerprints and face scans were not the same as “physical evidence” when considered in a context where those body features would be used to unlock a phone.

“If a person cannot be compelled to provide a passcode because it is a testimonial communication, a person cannot be compelled to provide one’s finger, thumb, iris, face, or other biometric feature to unlock that same device,” the judge wrote.

“The undersigned finds that a biometric feature is analogous to the 20 nonverbal, physiological responses elicited during a polygraph test, which are used to determine guilt or innocence, and are considered testimonial.”

There were other ways the government could get access to relevant data in the Facebook extortion case “that do not trample on the Fifth Amendment,” Westmore added. They could, for instance, ask Facebook to provide

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Jennings’ defense attorneys raised questions about this century. During the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Scotland THE FIRST (U.S.) CRIMINAL new—and little understood—technique, as well as whether Yard sent representatives to host an exhibit to demonstrate such evidence could even be legally introduced in court the technique, which was growing in popularity in British (the first time it was used in Britain, they claimed, a special courts. Even Mark Twain was caught up in the speculation TRIAL THAT USED law was needed to make such evidence legal). The defense of how they could be used to apprehend criminals, placing team even solicited prints from the public in an effort to find “the assassin’s natal autograph” – which is to say the a match and disprove the theory that fingerprints were never “blood-stained finger-prints” found on a knife- at the center FINGERPRINTS AS EVIDENCE repeated. A courtroom demonstration, however, backfired of the dramatic courtroom finale in his novel Puddn’head badly: Defense attorney W.G Anderson’s print was clearly Wilson, published years before the Jennings case. By FRANCINE UENUMA (smithsonian.com) visible after he challenged experts to lift the impression Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/first-case-where-fingerprints-were-used-evidence-180970883/ from a piece of paper that he had touched. After Jennings’ conviction, however, lawyers mounted a challenge to the notion that such a newfangled and little- This made a distinct impression on the jury as well; understood technique could be admitted in court. After more they voted unanimously to convict Jennings, who was than a year in the appeals process, on December 21, 1911, the sentenced to hang. The Decatur Herald called it “the first Illinois Supreme Court upheld the conviction in the People conviction on finger-printing evidence in the history of this v. Jennings, affirming his sentence would be carried out country,” adding with dramatic flourish that “the murderer of soon after. They cited prior cases in Britain and published Hiller wrote his signature when he rested his hand upon the studies on the subject to lend credibility to fingerprinting. freshly painted railing at the Hiller home.” Several witnesses in the Jennings trial, it pointed out, had been trained by the venerable Scotland Yard. “This method It’s unclear the degree to which Jennings’s race played a of identification is in such general and common use that part in his trial. News reports at the time didn’t sensationalize the courts cannot refuse to take judicial cognizance of it,” race in their coverage, or even mention Hiller’s race. Yet it’s the ruling stated. not hard to envision that a jury, presented with an unfamiliar technique, would have been more skeptical with a white Fingerprinting had thereby been “proclaimed by the defendant. Supreme Court of Illinois to be sufficient basis for a verdict of death by hanging,” the Chicago Tribune reported, and it The concept of identifying people by unique fingerprints, was the beginning of a shift toward the largely unquestioned first laid out 18 years earlier in Europe, even had its origin use of fingerprint evidence in courtrooms across the United in pseudoscientific racial beliefs. It was thoroughly studied States. “The Jennings case really is the earliest case – and chronicled in Galton’s 1892 epic tome Finger Prints (A earliest published case – in which you’ll find any discussion cousin of Darwin, Galton had long focused on a series of of fingerprint evidence,” says Simon A. Cole, author of experiments hoping to tie myriad personal and intellectual Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal characteristics to physical traits and heredity). Galton, who Identification and professor of criminology, law had also studied in an effort to deduce the and society at the University of California, Irvine School of meaning behind physical measurements, did not find any Social Ecology. “So, in that sense it really is a precedent for major difference between races in his exhaustive collection the whole country.” of prints for research—but not for lack of effort. He wrote in Finger Prints that “it seemed reasonable to expect to People v. Jennings further specified that fingerprint Thomas Jennings, accused of murdering Clarence D. Hiller, Chicago, Illinois, 1910. find racial differences in finger marks, the inquiries were evidence was something that the average juror would have (Photo by Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images) continued in varied ways until hard fact had made hope no to rely on interpretation to understand. “Expert testimony longer justifiable.” is admissible when the subject matter of the inquiry is of such a character that only persons of skill and experience As journalist Ava Kofman recently outlined in the are capable of forming a correct judgment as to any facts Just after 2 a.m. on the night of September 19, 1910, used to hoist himself through a window at the Hiller house. Public Domain Review, Galton’s pursuit of fingerprint connected therewith.” The inclusion of this statement was Clarence Hiller woke to the screams of his wife and Police photographed and cut off the railing itself, claiming science meshed well with colonialist ideology of the time. crucial in legal terms: some level of human judgment and daughter in their home at 1837 West 104th Street in Chicago. it would prove the identity of the burglar. In the eyes of the “Fingerprints were originally introduced for Europeans to interpretation was a given, built into the courtroom process After a spate of robberies, residents of this South Side court, they were right; Hiller’s murder would lead to the first distinguish between the otherwise indistinguishable mass when fingerprint evidence was presented to a jury. The neighborhood were already on edge. Hiller, a railroad clerk, conviction using fingerprint evidence in a criminal trial in of extra-European peoples, who themselves produced degree of subjectivity that represents and what potential raced to confront the intruder. In the ensuing scuffle, the the United States. At times controversial, this method of “indecipherable” fingerprints,” she wrote. Later in his room for error - however small – is acceptable is still actively two men fell down the staircase. His daughter, Clarice, solving cases endures more than a century later. career, according to Kofman, Galton would later engage debated more than a century later. later recalled hearing three shots, followed by her mother in quantifying racial differences, inventing “scientific,” screaming upstairs. Neighbors came running but the man Not only has fingerprinting had staying power in the numerical measurements to categorize humans by race. had fled the home, leaving a dying Hiller by his front door. legal system, the underlying method is fundamentally the same as when it was first introduced to American police CONT. NEXT PAGE Nonetheless the system Galton outlined was to The unknown assailant didn’t make it far. Thomas departments. Prints are still evaluated based on the same identify unique characteristics proved effective and caught Jennings – an African-American man who had been paroled descriptions of arches, loops and whorls written by Sir on quickly. Police in the United States were just beginning six weeks earlier - was stopped a half-mile away wearing a in the late 19th century. Further, the basic to emulate their European colleagues and started to gather torn and bloodied coat and carrying a revolver. But it was technique of collecting and comparing remains remarkably prints for the purpose of identification in the early 20th what he left behind that would be the focal point of his similar to what was applied to that rudimentary set of prints trial—a fingerprint from a freshly painted railing that he discovered at the Hiller home. SCAFO - Winter 2019 SCAFO - Winter 2019 0015 14 15 CONT. “FIRST CRIMINAL TRAIL”

Beginning with the Jennings trial, two fundamental conclusion that a jury of lay persons would be incapable When it comes to fingerprint evidence, uncertainty questions have formed the basis of any challenge to its of doing…A fingerprint examiner’s conclusion is not based has not been eliminated, but is now more likely to be admissibility in court. Is the technique itself sound (the upon a personal opinion, but rather on an evaluation of acknowledged and addressed. And despite greater primary issue when it was first introduced)? And how the detail present using the knowledge and skills acquired skepticism in recent decades and the more stringent accurate the evidence is when interpreted and applied through training, education and expertise.” caveats introduced by Daubert, courts have not significantly to any specific case? “The uniqueness of fingerprints curtailed the use of fingerprint evidence, nor the reliance on is really kind of beside the point of the accuracy of the “You’ll probably find for the most part that most people examiners to interpret this evidence for the jury. identification,” says Cole. “The best way to understand are in agreement that most of the time if you have a decent that is to think about eyewitness identification – nobody print of some size that is of decent quality, you can make “A hundred years is kind of an impressive run,” disputes that all human faces are in some sense unique, an identification in some reasonable percentage of cases,” says Cole. “There are some reasons for that – I think the even those of identical twins, but nobody reasons from says David A. Harris, professor of law at the University fingerprint patterns are very information rich, you can see that that eyewitness identification must be 100 percent of Pittsburgh and author of Failed Evidence: Why Law that there’s a lot of information packed into a small area.” accurate.” Juries like the one that convicted Jennings were Enforcement Resists Science. “Where things have begun to When Thomas Jennings placed his hand on a porch railing initially focused on whether prints were repeated, “whereas come into question in the last 20 years is the way that those in the middle of the night, he unwittingly introduced that really what we need to know is can people match them identifications have been done, the certainty with which they valuable information into American courtrooms, influencing accurately.” have been presented, the terminology around that and just a the outcome of innumerable cases for more than a century general harder look at all the forensic sciences.” and counting. It is this gray area that defense attorneys seize on in thorny legal cases. Following a 1993 Supreme Court ruling in Daubert vs. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc., judges were required to apply what is known as the Daubert standard to determine if a witness’ testimony can be considered scientific. This is based on a list of factors, including how the technique itself has been tested, error rates and what regulations govern its usage. These standards were more stringent than what had previously been required, putting the onus on judges to determine what could be considered by a jury as scientific evidence.

Fingerprinting techniques came under marked public scrutiny in 2004 when an Oregon lawyer named Brandon Mayfield was arrested in connection with a terrorist attack on a commuter train in Madrid based on a mistaken match of a partial print gathered at the scene . The FBI later publicly apologized to Mayfield, but such high-profile incidents inevitably introduce questions about if other mistakes have gone unnoticed and fuel skeptics and lawyers who contest the often presumed infallibility of such evidence.

As part of a broader re-examination of forensics that had come to be widely accepted over the years, the National Academy of Sciences released a report in 2009 that addressed some of these shortcomings, acknowledging that “not all fingerprint evidence is equally good, because the true value of the evidence is determined by the quality of the latent fingerprint image. These disparities between and within the disciplines highlight a major Credit: problem in the forensic science community: The simple Chicago Examiner, September 20, 1910 reality is that the interpretation of forensic evidence is not always based on scientific studies to determine its validity.”

Fingerprint examiners rely on years of experience, testing and verification by a second examiner to bolster the reliability of their determination. Echoing the reasoning in the People v. Jennings ruling, fingerprint examiner At the top of the picture are Miss Florence Hiller, who identified the prisoner as the slayer of her father, and William Leo writes that “the purpose of the expert witness Clarence Hiller, who was killed. Below ore Mrs. Clarence Hiller, the widow, at the left, and her oldest daughter, in the legal system is to interpret information and form a Clarice. Credit: Chicago Examiner, November 11, 1910 SCAFO - Winter 2019 SCAFO - Winter 2019 16 17 THE MURDERS OF THOMAS AND ANN FARROW Source: http://www.murdermap.co.uk/pages/cases/case.asp?CID=275631645

The first British murder case to be solved using fingerprints took place in Detpford, south London, on March 27, 1905.

At 7 o’clock that morning shop manager Thomas Farrow, 71, had not yet got dressed to open up for the day when there was a knock at the door. Not wanting to pass up a bit of early business, he let them in even though he was still in his nightshirt.

But the two men who entered G Chapman’s Oil and colour stores at 34 High Street were not interested in his paints and brushes. They wanted to know where he kept his money.

When he resisted Farrow was battered over head at least six times with a crossbar, first as he stood behind the counter and then when he tried to stop his attackers going upstairs.

On the second floor the robbers found not only the cash box but also Farrow’s 65 year-old wife Ann. She too was shown no mercy before the two men fled with their loot. It amounted to a little under ten pounds. Albert and Alfred Stratton in the dock (Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper). Just over an hour later, 16 year-old William Jones turned up for work to find the door locked and immediately sensed something was wrong. After running to Greenwich to get help, he and another shop assistant went round the back to find the scullery door open. The idea of using fingerprints for identifying criminals had first been suggested in an article in Nature by the Scottish Inside they found Thomas Farrow lying face down in a pool of blood in the parlour. His last act before collapsing missionary doctor Henry Faulds in 1880. He approached Scotland Yard with the idea but was dismissed as a crank. under a chair had been to lock the front door to prevent the robbers coming back. Instead the credit for developing the science of fingerprints would go to Darwin’s cousin Francis Galton. Even then, the police preferred the Bertillon method of distinguishing crooks by measurement of the body, including the size of the It was left for the first policeman at the scene, Sergeant Albert Atkinson, to go upstairs and find Mrs Farrow, head, ears, arms, fingers and feet. moaning in pain from severe injuries to her head. She clung to life for another four days before dying in hospital. An examination of the crime scene revealed blood in a basin where the killer washed his hands. There were also The Fingerprint Branch was set up in 1901 when Edward Henry was appointed assistant commissioner CID. By then two stockings with eye-holes cut in them, stockings which matched pairs owned by Mrs Farrow. fingerprints had helped solve a murder in Argentina in 1892 and India in 1898.

There was no sign of forced entry, no murder weapon and no eyewitnesses. A pair of milkmen had seen two Until 1905, fingerprints had only solved one crime, a burglary in 1902, but their real success had been in linking criminals men coming out of the Chapman store that morning. One had a dark moustache and was wearing a bowler hat, to the many aliases they had used over the years to avoid being locked up for longer as repeat offenders. a blue suit and black boots. The other was wearing a dark brown suit, a grey cap and brown boots. In 1904 the old system of identification by sight was conclusively proved fallible when it emerged Adolf Beck had been wrongly imprisoned for five years after being mistaken for a fraudster. He was awarded £5,000 in compensation. Another witness had seen two men running down the High Street at 7.15am and recognised one of them as The uniqueness of fingerprints was a key part of the Stratton trial, although there were still doubts as to whether a single Alfred Stratton, 22. Alfred was arrested six days after the murder at the King of Prussia pub in Deptford and his print was strong enough to sustain a case as opposed to all ten fingers. brother Albert - thought likely to be the second man - was detained at a street corner 24 hours later. Then on April 8, more than £2 of the stolen money was found near Deptford Creek. Giving evidence, Detective Inspector Charles Collins told the jury:

Alfred’s girlfriend was also to tell police that he had returned home on the morning of the murder with money “At Scotland Yard we have now between 80,000 and 90,000 sets of finger prints, which means between 800,000 and and smelling of paraffin, but the case was weak and circumstantial. Neither were picked out by the milkmen who 900,000 impressions of digits. In my experience I have never found any two such impressions to correspond... I found had seen the robbers. that Alfred’s right thumb corresponded with the mark on the cash box and I prepared for the purpose of comparison an enlargement of the mark upon the cash box, and one practically on the same scale of the right thumb of Alfred... Called before the coroner for the inquest they laughed when the jury returned a verdict of ‘wilful murder.’ I have indicated by red lines and figures eleven characteristics in which those two prints agree... I did not find any According to journalists, they spent the hearing whistling and stamping their feet on the floor ‘as though they characteristic which is visible in the print on the cash box which does not agree.” were in the gallery of some cheap place of amusement.’ The Stratton brothers were found guilty by the jury after two hours deliberation and on May 23, 1905, they were hanged. The vital evidence was to be the greasy mark of a left thumb on the cash box. Scotland Yard’s fingerprint branch, Fingerprints were from that point used with confidence to convict innumberable criminals who might have escaped which had been set up in 1901, matched it to Alfred Stratton. justice otherwise.

On May 5 the Stratton brothers went on trial at the Old Bailey. Also on trial was the science of fingerprinting. It was only in the late 20th Century that their place in the courtroom was supplanted by the new science of DNA..

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DATE: October 5th, 2018 Marvin also announced a Proposed Bylaw change: LOCATION: Renaissance Hotel - Palm Springs HOST(S): Erika Jacobs - 1st Vice President Article 2 Bylaws Section - HONORARY MEMBERSHIPS SECRETARY: Amy Rodriguez (Past President 2009) PROGRAM: SCAFO 27th Annual Training Conference Current - with proposed addition in bold italic black type CALL TO ORDER: General meeting at 1301 hours by President Cindee Lozano. Honorary Memberships Honorary Memberships may be conferred on Judges, Sheriffs, Chiefs of police, Heads of Law Enforcement Agencies, Wardens of State PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE led by: Led by Sheri Orellana - Treasure/Past President 2016 Prisons, District Attorneys, Present and Past Presidents of the California State Division Interntional Association for Identification, and other qualified individuals selected by a majority of the executive Committee.

Upon admissionFirst Reading: to membership Josie Mejia they shall(2nd enjoyVice President)all rights and privileges of Active Members except that they shall not be entitled ATTENDANCE to vote or be elected to the Executive Board. No fees shall be charged to Honorary Members,Victoria and Perez their membership shall remain in effect asintroduced long as they Lidia hold Reeferany of the from qualified LASD. positions. Any Honorary Member having the qualifications, and wishing to do so, may PAST PRESIDENTS Present: Steve Tillman (2002), Marvin Spreyne (2008), Amy Rodriguez (2009), Cynthia Fortier (2013), become an Active Member. Speaker Tony Nguyen (2015), Sheri Orellana (2016). Rationale of proposed bylaw amendment. The proposed wording addition had been in the ByLaws, however, at some point during EXECUTIVE BOARD Present: Cindee Lozano – President, Erika Jacobs - 1st Vice President, Jessica Callinan - 2nd Vice President & the transferring process of going digital the wording was omitted . As the current poriton of the Bylaws reads one could presume that Webmaster, Amy Rodriguez – Secretary, Sheri Orellana – Treasurer, Nicole Osborn - Sgt. at Arms, Kristine Duran - Sr. Director, Dianna those holding honorary membership are entitled to vote and be elected to the Executive Board. The proposed Bylaw amendment Roque - J. Director, Angela Schouten - Jr. Director, Marvin Spreyne – Parliamentarian & Tony Nguyen - Editor would remove any such presumption by the insertion of the wording “except that they shall not be entitled to vote or be elected to the Executive Board” and thus clarifying that voting entilement is clearly for those members in good standing. EXECUTIVE BOARD Absent: Josie Mejia - Chairman of the Board, Denell Payne - Sr. Director & Bill Leo - Historian.

MEMBERS, GUESTS VENDORS PRESENT FOR CONFERENCE: 97 ANNOUNCEMENTS: Jessica Callinan announced the 2019 28th SCAFO Conference will be held on October 2nd through October 4th at the Double Tree Mission Valley. Reservation can be made now at the hotel just use Group Code: AFO. She also announced the San Diego District Attorney’s Office is hiring, just go to the website for further information. OLD BUSINESS PAST MEETING MINUTES: Tony Nguyen - Editor/Past President (2015) motioned to accept the August 2018 meeting minutes. RAFFLE PRIZES PROVIDED BY: SCAFO; Marvin Spreyne; Foster & Freeman; Arrowhead Forensics; AAA Hoarding & Biohazard Kristine Duran – Sr. Director, seconded the motion. Removal; Ron Smith and Associates, Inc.; MEDTECH Forensics; Biometris4All; Lynn Peavey Co.; Tri-Tech Forensics.

Swear-In’s: John Farrell with Carlsbad Police Department NEXT MEETING: Sworn-In by: Steve Tillman – Past President (2002) Date: December 1st , 2018 Location/Time: Knott’s Berry Farm, Buena Park

MOTION TO ADJOURN: NEW BUSINESS Motion by: Marvin Spreyne – Parliamentarian Second: Jessica Callinan - 2nd Vice President & Webmaster Sheri Orellana announced for a motion to be made for the repairs or replacement of Pomona’s Police Department drone that was used for SCAFO Conference The cost should not exceed $3,000.00 dollars. Motion: Jessica Callinan - 2nd Vice President & Webmaster MEETING ADJOURNED: 1320 hours Second: Kristine Duran - Sr. Director

BOARD MEMBER ELECTIONS: Marvin Spreyne (Parliamentarian) - Announced at the closing of the nomination process on October 4, 2018 at 5:00pm only one individual position had submitted a Letter of Intent of which all were qualified and accepted apart from Director of which there were three positions available. Two members had submitted their Letter of Intent for a Director position of which both were qualified and accepted. Having no further candidates to contest these positions the qualified and accepted members automatically are elected. One position of a Junior Director remains unfilled. The Executive Board will seek out and vote for a qualified member prior to the Executive Board meeting in January 2019. Marvin Spreyne then announced the 201t 9 Executive Board as Follows:

President: Erika Jacobs with Riverside Sheriff’s Department. 1st Vice President: Jessica Callinan with San Diego District Attorney’s Office. 2nd Vice President: Amy Rodriguez with Riverside Disrict Attorney’s Office. Sgt.-At-Arms: Steve Tillmann with Manhattan Police Department/LASO Retired. Secretary: Denell Payne with Riverside Sheriff’s Department CAL-ID Jr. Directors: Aurora Marquez with Los Angeles Police Department Cynthia Williamson with Long Beach Police Department.

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DATE: December 1st, 2018 OTHER: LOCATION: Knott’s Berry Farm Hotel - Buena Park HOST(S): Erika Jacobs - 1st Vice President The Following is SCAFO’s new 2019 Executive Board Members SECRETARY: Amy Rodriguez (Past President 2009) PROGRAM: “Armando Fierro Murder” by Lt. Dean Spivacke with Riverside County Sheriff’s Sworn-In by: Marvin Spreyne – Parliamentarian/Past President (2008) CALL TO ORDER: General meeting at 1258 hours by President Cindee Lozano. Erika Jacobs - President Jessica Callinan - 1st Vice President PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE led by: Led by Marvin Spreyne - Past President 2008 Amy Rodriguez - 2nd Vice President Cindee Lozano - Chairman of the Board Moment of Silence for the love ones that have passed away and for all Public Safety Personnel & Military. Denell Payne - Secretary FirstSheri Reading:Orellana - JosieTreasurer Mejia (2nd Vice President) A Tribute given by Josie Mejia, Sheri Orellana & Diane Castro for Maria Gaspar, who passed away November 6th. She was a SCAFO introducedSteve Tillmann Lidia - Sgt. Reefer at Arms from LASD. Victoria Perez member since 2003, a Fingerprint Specialist with LAPD & most recently an AFIS Technician II with LASO. Angie Schouten - Sr. Director Speaker Aurora Marquez - Jr. Director ATTENDANCE Clark Fogg - Historian The following 2019 Executive Board Members that were not Sworn-In at this meeting, but will be at the Executive Board meeting in PAST PRESIDENTS Present: Clark Fogg (1994), lSteve Tillman (2002), Marvin Spreyne (2008), Amy Rodriguez (2009), January. Sheri Orellana (2016), and Josie Mejia (2017). Cynthia Williamson - Jr. Director EXECUTIVE BOARD Present: Cindee Lozano – President, Erika Jacobs - 1st Vice President, Jessica Callinan - 2nd Vice President & Tony Nguyen - Editor Webmaster, Josie Mejia - Chairman of the Board, Amy Rodriguez – Secretary, Sheri Orellana – Treasurer, Denell Payne - Sr. Director, Dianna Roque - Jr. Director, Angela Schouten - Jr. Director, and Marvin Spreyne – Parliamentarian Cindee Lozano (President) presented the Wolford gavel and SCAFO gavel to Erika Jacobs, the 2019 SCAFO incoming President. EXECUTIVE BOARD Absent: Nicole Osborn - Sgt. at Arms, Kristine Duran - Sr. Director, Tony Nguyen - Editor & Bill Leo - Historian. Erika Jacobs (1st Vice President) gave a special thank you to Cindee Lozano, Sheri Orellana and everyone on the Board that helped with the 2018 SCAFO Conference as well as her husband for his support. MEMBERS & GUESTS PRESENT: 67

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Jessica Callinan (2nd Vice President) announced the 28th Annual SCAFO Conference for 2019 will be October 2th - October 4th at OLD BUSINESS the Double Tree Mission Valley. There will be a photo workshop in the evening possibly Tuesday night just before the day of the conference, more details to follow. There will also be a Jury study presentation. If anyone has any topics you would like to see at the PAST MEETING MINUTES: Sheri Orellana – Treasurer/Past President (2016) motioned to accept the October 2018 meeting minutes. conference please email her. Denell Payne - Sr. Director, seconded the motion. Erika Jacobs, incoming President, announced a Photoshop for Forensic Examiners, which will be a 24-hours training course from Sheri Orellana announced Maria Gaspar paid her 2019 SCAFO dues and would like to put it towards the Dell Freeman Scholarship January 14 - 17th given by Phil Hess at the DOJ Laboratory in Riverside.. fund. All present members agree.

SECOND READINGS: RAFFLE PRIZES PROVIDED BY: SCAFO; Marvin Spreyne; Erika Jacobs; Cindee Lozano; Jessica Callinan; Josie Mejia; Denell Payne & Athika Anwardeen with Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Dianna Roque. Diamond Cook with Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department LaDel Gallo-Roberts with Riverside Sheriff’s Department NEXT MEETING: Shaudi Pishvaie with Los Angeles Police Department Date: February 2019 Ryan Schwarz with Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department Location/Time: TBA

Motion to Accept: Bill Jugle - SCAFO Member. MOTION TO ADJOURN: Second: Josie Mejia - Chairman of the Board Motion by: Marvin Spreyne – Parliamentarian/Past President 2008 Second: Cindee Lozano – President

Swear-In’s: Will Conkling with Glendale Police Department Linda Kuster with Riverside County Sheriff’s Department MEETING ADJOURNED: 1441 hours Krystal Parker with Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Natalie Popovich with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Diane Shear with Glendale Police Department Elizabeth Soto with Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Michael Ullemeyer with Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department Sworn-In by: Steve Tillman – Past President (2002)

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