Date & Time: December 5, 2024 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET
This is a FREE program.

This program is online only and will be recorded. Everyone who registers will receive a link to the video recordings for sessions they are registered for.

CPCS approved 2.0 credits per session for the Criminal Defense Trial, Adult Post-Conviction, and YAD Trial and Appeals, panels. Certificates will be emailed to all attendees who were logged onto the program for at least 80% of the online program.

Panelists:

Senator William Brownsberger

Kerry Collins, Undersecretary of Forensic Science, Executive Office of Public Safety and Security

Lisa Kavanaugh, Innocence Program Director at the Committee for Public Counsel Services

Lucy Davis, Academy Standards Board Member at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Consultant

Adrienne Lynch, Chief of the Homicide Unit, Middlesex District Attorney’s Office

Ann Marie Mires, Forensic Anthropologist and Archaeologist, Director of Forensic Criminology and Director of the Molly Bish Center at Anna Maria College

Robin Cotton, DNA Analysis Expert, Director of the Forensic Sciences Program and Associate Professor, Boston University School of Medicine Associate Professor

Ira Gant, Forensic Services Director, Committee for Public Counsel Services, and Lecturer, Wrongful Convictions Practicum at Boston University School of Law

Anne Goldbach, former Forensic Services Director, Committee for Public Counsel Services and past member of the Forensic Science Oversight Board

The Forensic Science Oversight Board (FSOB) was established by the Legislature (Chapter 69, Section 9, of the Acts of 2018), to provide oversight and auditing for Massachusetts’ forensic service providers including state and local crime laboratories. It is tasked with providing enhanced, objective and independent auditing and oversight of forensic evidence used in criminal matters, and the analysis and integrity of forensic work in Massachusetts. Quality forensic work benefits the entire criminal justice system, including the work of attorneys, judges and law enforcement.

This webinar will include the following:

• Creation and mandate of the Forensic Science Oversight Board
• What the FSOB can do now and how it can do even more in the future
• Reports and accomplishments of the SOB
• Moving forward with the FSOB and its future needs