In 2018 in conjunction with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) assembled a group of multidisciplinary experts, the Evidence Management Steering Committee, to develop a plan to (1) provide recommendations for the retention, preservation, integrity, and disposition of evidence and property and (2) encourage the adoption of practice improvements, through education and engagement, by the broad community of U.S. justice system stakeholders involved in evidence management. The committee oversaw four major activities: an evidence management survey (NIST SP 1500-33B); a review of existing research on evidence management (NIST SP 1500-33C); a stakeholder workshop; and preparation of this document. Additionally, the dataset that serves as the basis of the committee’s findings in the aforementioned reports has been published at https://doi.org/10.18434/mds2-3834.
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