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Accreditation Document Repository

Large Office: Personnel Training Documents

These documents pertain to personnel training and support services, and address standards for NAME Personnel and Staffing, section “G” as well as NAME Support Services and Consultants, section “H” and IACME Forensic Specialists, section “E”. These examples are reflective of a large office that performs autopsies in-house.
May 2025
Accreditation Document Repository

Large Office: Records Documents

These documents pertain to records retention, social media, release of information – including daily case review – and address standards for NAME Reports and Recording Keeping, section “F” and IACME Agency Practices, section “A” as well as IACME Investigative Practices, section “B”. These examples are reflective of a large office that performs autopsies in-house.
May 2025
Accreditation Document Repository

Medium Office: Toxicology Documents

These documents pertain to toxicology – including other samples and rapid toxicology guidelines – and address standards for IACME Laboratory Services, section “D”. These examples are reflective of a medium-sized office that performs autopsies in-house and at other facilities.
May 2025
Accreditation Document Repository

Large Office: Postmortem Examination Documents

These documents pertain to postmortem examination and general responsibilities of the forensic pathologist, and address standards for NAME Morgue Operations, section “C” and IACME Agency Practices, section “A” as well as IACME Morgue Facilities, section “C”. These examples are reflective of a large office that performs autopsies in-house.
May 2025
Accreditation Document Repository

Medium Office: Morgue Operations and Lab Services Documents

These documents pertain to body receiving and releasing, disposition of unclaimed decedents, in-house autopsy policy, portable dental machines – including x-ray machines, and Rapid DNA machine use – and address standards for IACME Morgue Facilities, section “C” as well as IACME Laboratory Services, section “D”. These examples are reflective of a medium-sized office that performs autopsies in-house and at other facilities.
May 2025
Accreditation Document Repository

Large Office: Case Involvement Documents

These documents pertain to case notification, acceptance, and declination – including death notification, in-custody deaths, death scene investigation/child death investigation, and identification – and address standards for NAME Investigations, section “B” and IACME Agency Practices, section “A” as well as IACME Investigative Practices, section “B”. These examples are reflective of a large office that performs autopsies in-house.
May 2025
Accreditation Document Repository

Large Office: Mass Disaster Plan

This policy example pertains to mass disaster planning – including multiple fatalities from a single event and disaster to OCME facility – and addresses standards for NAME General, section “A”. This example is reflective of a large office that performs autopsies in-house.
May 2025
Accreditation Document Repository

Large Office: Maintenance and Facility Documents

These documents pertain to facility maintenance and security – including employee safety – and address standards for NAME General, section “A” and IACME Agency Practices, section “A”. These examples are reflective of a large office that performs autopsies in-house.
May 2025
Legal Document Repository

Order on Defendant’s Motion to Suppress Re: Genetic Information (State of Idaho v. Bryan C. Kohberger)

The accused was charged with four counts of murder and one count of burglary where four students were found cut and stabbed to death in their residence. After a hearing conducted on the defendant’s motion claiming violations of the Fourth Amendment’s provisions regarding search and seizure, the trial court denied the defendant’s motions to suppress and addressed the following issues in its rulings:
February 2025
Legal Document Repository

Harvin v. State of Maryland (2024) Opinion

Appeals Court decision upholding admissibility of process utilizing TrueAllele®, a probabilistic genotyping software (PGS). This process was used to interpret DNA mixtures detected on several items recovered during an investigation of a sexual assault of an 83-year-old female victim. The Court’s opinion includes a helpful discussion on experts in general, as well as a discussion on the use of PGS for forensic purposes. The Court also discusses the recently adopted Daubert standard in criminal cases. The Supreme Court of Maryland denied petition for writ of certiorari on January 29, 2025 (petition number 355).
September 2024

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