Listserv -- Forensic Reform Listserv
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PURPOSE The Forensic Reform Network (FRN) enables criminal practitioners, forensic researchers, and others concerned with the integrity of the forensic analyses to support and communicate with each other. (If you’re on this list, please know you’re in good company.) This is needed because, while there is growing recognition of the need to ensure the propriety of forensic evidence, most of those outside of government who have expertise on the subject typically are unable to either fully engage in forensic policy debates, or remain abreast of the latest forensic policy developments. This effort is intended to change that. GUIDING PRINCIPLES The Forensic Reform Network is for people concerned with improving forensic evidentiary processes so that: - Scientific principles control forensic analyses and provide parameters for forensic testimony; - Proper quality controls and quality assurance are fundamental to the analytic process; - Science trumps politics in forensic decision making; - There is transparency in forensic operations; - Forensic analysts receive the support and training they need to perform the quality work they strive for; and - The range of engaged and educated voices can meaningfully participate in forensic policy issues. OPERATING PROCEDURES Participation in the Forensic Reform Network is simple. It includes membership in a FRN listserv, access to information about various forensic reform efforts and issues, and the ability to educate each other about forensic debates occurring across the country. Those wishing to participate are required to do nothing other than use the listserv responsibly. This means directing all comments and queries to the constructive advancement of the guiding principles above, and taking individual discussions offline. (Nobody likes a listserv that becomes a chat room.) FRN participants also should assume that anything written on the listserv will make its way to people off the listserv. (Murphy’s law of email, generally…) Participants are encouraged to share documents across the listserv, as well. Although the Innocence Project will administer this listserv, it does not take responsibility for the comments made or the information passed thereon. While we hope never to have to do so, we also reserve the right, in the interest of the integrity of the listserv’s purpose, to remove from the listserv anyone who consistently fails to use the listserv properly. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Listserv Archives. (The current archive is only available to the list members.)
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