Computer Forensics -- Digital Photography In Law Enforcement

December 26, 2008

Digital Photography In Law Enforcement News

Culver-Stockton College's new curriculum offers change of pace (Quincy Herald-Whig)

CANTON, Mo. -- Culver-Stockton College student Amber Priebe wrote in her blog that seeing the Hippodrome in Istanbul will make her a better teacher. After learning that the racetrack once held as many as 100,000 spectators, she was amazed to see that only fragments remain.

Amnesty ends with 1,900 firearms surrendered (CTV Toronto)

The Pixels for Pistols has resulted in almost 1,900 firearms being turned in, says the Toronto Police Service.

Request to ban cameras from Benton County courtroom denied (Tri-City Herald)

The argument that Kenneth Freeman should not be photographed in court because fellow prisoners may recognize him and retaliate is not enough to keep cameras out of future hearings, a judge said Friday.

Lockheed Martin Technology Significantly Increases Situation Awareness for Small Unit Forces (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Lockheed Martin has developed and is fielding a game-changing distributed technology that significantly improves situational awareness for dismounted Warfighters.

Great photos? Great photographer (The Globe Gazette)

MASON CITYâ€” Globe Gazette photographer Elwin Musser came to work on Feb. 3, 1959, and was told to go to the airport, that there had been a plane crash.

Examine the Digital Photography Market (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

NEW YORK----Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Cameras industry is available in its catalogue.

After storied career, agent retires (The Spokesman-Review)

FBI Special Agent Norm Brown traveled a long, exciting and sometimes dangerous series of assignments before returning to his hometown of Spokane, where he graduated from Ferris High School in 1975.

Archive – After processing discovery materials, an archive is created for each case. Viruses found in processing are typically removed (a clean archive), program-related files are removed (per instruction, a purged archive), erased files are analyzed and recovered if possible, slack space is checked, files are grouped according to files classes, and meta-data is added to the database.

Sector Gap – Sectors consist of fixed blocks of storage space that usually contain 512 bytes of data.

Electronic Evidence – According to Black's law dictionary, evidence is any species of proof, or probative matter, legally presented at the trial of an issue, by the act of parties and through the medium of witnesses, records, documents, exhibits, concrete objects, etc. for the purpose of inducing belief in the minds of the court or jury as their contention. Electronic information generally is admissible into evidence in a legal proceeding.