Say goodbye to film from Law Enforcement Technology at Officer.com
http://bit.ly/a8TKoZ

an interesting article
"When the State of Wisconsin finally made the move to convert its state
crime laboratories from conventional film to digital photography, it
signaled an end to the use of a form of crime scene documentation and
evidence photography that had been used in criminal investigations for over
136 years across the United States."

"One of the primary reasons behind Wisconsin being the final state to
convert to digital images was due to Wisconsin Assembly Bill 584, introduced
in 2003. A Wisconsin legislator was angered by photographic manipulation of
a digital image by high school students and proposed that if students were
capable of such malfeasance, then so too were the police and others within
the criminal justice system. Therefore, a bill was proposed and entered into
law that prohibited "the introduction of a photograph ... of a person,
place, document ... or event to prove the content ... if that photograph ...
is created or stored by data in the form of numerical digits." It was not
until 2007 that this law was modified to allow for the admissibility of
digital images, additionally requiring the photographer to swear as to the
accuracy and unaltered state of the images. Similar legal complexities were
encountered in states all around the nation."




-- 
Peterk
Richmond, Va
"The problems of our economy have occurred not as an outgrowth of
laissez-faire, unbridled competition.
They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the
umbrella of federal regulations."
Senator Ted Kennedy, in defending trucking deregulation in 1978.

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