I could be wrong...
I recall something similar in Oregon a bunch of years ago. The bridge inspectors were taking pictures using digital cameras. The pictures were scheduled as permanent. I wonder what everhappened with that/

Chris Flynn

> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:49:35 -0400
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> Subject: RAINbyte Say goodbye to film from Law Enforcement Technology at Officer.com
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> 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."
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> laissez-faire, unbridled competition.
> They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the
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> Senator Ted Kennedy, in defending trucking deregulation in 1978.
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