PRESIDENT CHABOTAR ACCEPTS POSITION ON AMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY'S NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL
President Kent Chabotar has accepted an invitation to join the National Advisory Council of the American Judicature Society, a nonpartisan organization of judges, lawyers and concerned citizens who seek to improve the justice system.
The NAC is a network of citizens in each state who help AJS monitor issues of importance in their area and provide advice on how and when it would be appropriate to address such issues. AJS also seeks the counsel of NAC on matters of national concern.
NAC members serve on one committee or working group devoted to studying an issue central to the AJS mission and participate in preparing reports and recommendations called for by the AJS Board of Directors. When requested to do so by AJS, an NAC member may act as a spokesperson for AJS on matters of unique state or local significance.
The AJS Institute of Forensic Science and Public Policy will open in January 2007 in downtown Greensboro. The institute and a 30-plus member bipartisan commission will focus on areas in which science and the law intersect.
Specific areas of focus for the institute will include DNA, ballistics, pathology, juror comprehension of scientific testimony, independence of crime laboratories, and human memory and its effect on eyewitness identification.
It is expected that there will be collaborative undertakings between the institute and Guilford students and faculty. The college's forensic biology program is unique in the state and among a handful of its kind nationally.
Feb. 9, 2006