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At the last SWGANTH meeting, the Board made a decision to disband Committees of Advisory Members once documents are approved and published.  It is recognized, however, that additional work on the documents may be necessary if and when proposed amendments are considered.  Moreover, as the SWGANTH completes its initial charge of identifying Best Practices for our discipline, we would like to expand our charter to include the development of minimum standards (see Home page).  It is thus anticipated that committees may eventually need to be repopulated.  If you wish to serve on any of these committees, please email secretary@swganth.org.


Los documentos ya están disponibles en español.

Many of the published and draft guidelines are now available in Spanish. Elsa Jaramillo Schloss, an interpreter for the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) - Colombia (Bogotá) provided the translations. Thank you, Elsa!  SWGANTH may also be working with the International Committee of the Red Cross to translate final documents into Russian, French and Arabic.


Guidelines and drafts are being posted as they are completed and approved by Committee Chairs and the SWGANTH Board.  Please check the Guidelines page periodically to view recent additions. 


Check out the Feedback Forum which is a blog, and please post your comments!



SWGDAM - DNA Analysis

SWGDE - Digital Evidence  www.swgde.org

SWGDOC - Questioned Documents

SWGDOG - Dog and Orthogonal Detector Guidelines  www.swgdog.org

SWGDVI - Disaster Victim Identification

SWGDRUG - Analysis of Siezed Drugs  www.swgdrug.org

SWGFAST - Latent Fingerprints  www.swgfast.org

SWGGUN - Firearms and Toolmarks  www.swggun.org

SWGIT - Imaging Technologies

SWGMAT - Materials

SWGMDI - Medicolegal Death Investigation

SWGSTAIN - Bloodstain Pattern Analysis  www.swgstain.org

FISWG - Facial Identification www.fiswg.org



Adams DE, Lothridge KL.  Scientific Working Groups.  Forensic Science Communications 2000;2(3).                                       www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/fsc/backissu/july2000/swgroups.htm

American Academy of Forensic Sciences                                                       www.aafs.org

International Association for Identification                                                       www.theiai.org

American Board of Forensic Anthropology                                                          www.theabfa.org

American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board - International                                                                                              http://www.ascld-lab.org/international/indexinternational.html

NAS Report on Strengthening Forensic Sciences in the United States:  A Path Forward      http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/228091.pdf

Draft Criminal Justice and Forensic Science Reform Act                             http://aafs.org/sites/default/files/pdf/DraftCriminalJusticeAndFSReformAct12-22-10.pdf