It’s always nice to be published, even more so from work that you produced over twenty years ago. A old co-worker emailed me asking my permission to use my name with her research project that is going to be published in the “Journal of American Society of Questioned Documents Examiners.”

At my agency, in the past, they didn’t like individual names associated with work that goes into public domain. Not sure if it’s actually policy, or because my supervisor didn’t want to give me credit for the work that I produced. But, today, I guess things are different. With all of the certifications going on in the forensic world, people want to know who worked on what.

So I worked on the photography aspect of this project. It’s one thing to have an opinion on a subject, it’s another to be able to prove and show record of it. That’s what I did, figured out how to document photographically her educated professional opinion on the subject of trash marks produced by electronic photocopying machines. All coping machines leave marks from the process that is unique to each machine. It’s one way to tell what xerox copy is from what machine.

I hope to show you some of the work when the article gets published in the future.