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EVIDENCE & FORENSICS Forensics Round-Up Recent news, happenings, new gadgets and technology within the forensic industry Use AFIS? The NIJ needs your help. The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) needs state and local law enforcement agencies that own an automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS) to respond to a survey assessing the current state of latent fingerprint interoperability. By identifying successes and barriers, results will provide baseline input for analysis and improvement of interoperability over time. NIJ developed the survey in cooperation with the AFIS Interoperability Task Force, which was part of the Subcommittee on Forensic Science that serves the Committee on Science and the National Science and Technology Council. The survey contains questions concerning AFIS product information, AFIS funding (acquisition, upgrades and maintenance), enrollment capabilities, repositories (finger, palm and latent), latent print-related staffing, search capacities, official agreements for searching, and search methods and capabilities from different perspectives, such as state to state and local to state. The Sensor, Surveillances, and Biometrics Center of Excellence is conducting the survey on behalf of NIJ. To participate, please contact Mark Persinger at (304) 254-2334 or by email at Mark.Persinger@ManTech.com. Contact the NIJ through Mark Greene, (202) 307-3384, mark.greene@ojp.usdoj.gov. 16 Law Enforcement Technology July 2013 www.officer.com Test the drug, not the user "Touch&Know; is the first non-biological drug testing kit offered by a U.S. retailer," explains Identa Corp.'s CEO Yaacov Shoham. "Touch&Know; safely tests the substance, as opposed to the person, and provides immediate results. It is a fully non-invasive method." The company has partnered with drugstore.com, making IDenta's detector kits available to all consumers.