Page 3 - The Value of Associations - AFI-LLC Newsletter March 2020

The Value of Associations - AFI-LLC Newsletter March 2020

Agency Information & Principals' CVs - Expert Analysis / Consultations
Current information on our primary agency website for services, forms, and CVs.
-- At Your Service - www.DeathCaseReview.com/Legal-Investigations
-- Your Investigators - www.DeathCaseReview.com/Principals-Bios
-- Dean's CV - http://dab-cv.DeathCaseReview.com
-- Karen's CV - http://ksb-cv.DeathCaseReview.com
-- References - http://references.DeathCaseReview.com

Karen provides Subject Matter Expertise on all Equivocal Deaths, and Dean has provided
expert consultations nationwide since 2010. He has been recognized by Colorado courts in
Forensic and Medicolegal Death Investigations generally in "the totality of the circumstances
of the fatal or non-fatal event and the competency of the official investigation, with respect to death investigation
protocol and standards."

Specific non-medical testimony has included as an expert in the areas of:
• Injury, wound before morphology, how wounds are created, mechanics of single edged instruments, bilateral
edged instruments, and mechanics of puncture wounds.
• Expert in criminal and forensic investigations, including death investigation and protocol standards as well as
related death investigation and injury causation; and Bloodstain Pattern Analysis.
• Patterned Injury Analysis
• Private Investigation Protocols
• Background Records and Investigations

Dean has been appointed in Colorado, Wyoming, Louisiana, Arizona and California in these areas and as an expert in
medicolegal / death investigations. In addition, Dean and Karen have provided private attorney and family consultations
in multiple states.

New Commentary: The Value of Associations –
Keeping You in Business, Networking, and Peer-to-Peer Networking
Last month’s blog commentary featured the growing trend – and professional
concerns – of ‘Restricting PI Access to Public Records’. As noted, this stems from
uninformed online media finding references to states making large profits from the
selling of personal data and public records. In the next of this three-part series, we
look at ‘The Value of Associations Keeping You in Business, Networking, and Peer-
to-Peer Networking’. Growing nationally state by state is the drive of misinformed
privacy advocates, legislators, regulators, and even governors to introduce restrictive - or outright bans - specific to
private investigators in various records important to the work we do for our clients.

There are several benefits, most of which are overlooked for the more tangible benefits, such as services and discounts.
Let’s look beyond these – as every association offers these to differing degrees. Being involved in membership and
leadership to management roles of multiple state, national and international associations, we see some common and
unique traits to each, and their benefits – as well as detractions. Some associations are run by an elected board, others
by an elected executive team, and others are as private associations at the discretion of the leadership. Again, these all
have their benefits and detractions. Finally, each association has their primary and secondary purposes – and all are
focused on membership.

Learn more at www.DeathCaseReview.com/afi-llc-blog/the-value-of-associations