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User Group Committee
President
Lt. Ben Seno, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Lt. Seno is a 30-year veteran of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. His experience includes:
- Custody - Los Angeles County Jail System
- Field Operations - Patrol
- Training - Academy Staff and Advanced Officer Training
- Investigations - Internal Affairs
- Headquarters Units - Office of the Sheriff and Administrative Services
- Technical Services - Law Enforcement Information Sharing Program and LACRIS
He is the Manager of LACRIS, which manages the L.A. County Automated Fingerprint Identification System, the County-wide L-1 Identix Livescan Network (173 deployed), DataWorks Plus Mug Shot Digital Imaging System (Digital PhotoManager), Cogent Mobile Fingerprint Scanners (2500 of 3000 currently deployed), and Cogent and NEC Latent workstations (65 deployed).
East Coast Vice President
Director Sam Pennica, City-County Bureau of Identification, Raleigh, NC
Sam Pennica is currently the Director of the City-County Bureau of Identification. He has more than 40 years of law enforcement experience, which began in 1971 as a fingerprint technician with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington D.C. In 1973, he became a Special Agent with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. After his retirement in 1999, Director Pennica joined the Johnston County Sheriff’s Office in Smithfield NC, as the lieutenant in charge of the Major Crimes Unit. In 2000, he became the Lieutenant in-charge of the Homicide Unit for the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, Fayetteville North Carolina, later becoming the Chief of Detectives, achieving the rank of Major. In August 2005, he was appointed Director of the City-County Bureau of Identification in Raleigh, NC.
Director Pennica holds a BS in Human Services, with a major in Administration of Justice, from Thomas A. Edison State College. He is also a 2006 graduate of the FBI Regional Carolina Command College. Director Pennica is a member of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors and the International Association for Identification. Additionally, he is the past president of the Society of Former SBI Agents, President of the North Carolina Division of the International Association for Identification and is on the executive board of directors for the Federal Bureau of Investigation Law Enforcement Executive Development Association. Director Pennica also serves on advisory boards for the ECPI College of Technology and the North Carolina Program for Forensic Sciences, which is a joint endeavor between NC State University and the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology. Director Pennica has earned 24 career commendations along with the FBI-LEEDA Trilogy Leadership Award.
West Coast Vice President
Daniel Desjardins, Chandler Police Department (AZ)
Daniel Desjardins has more than 27 years in law enforcement, of which the last 15.5 years have been in forensics processing crime scenes. He has a BS in Justice Studies and a MA in Administration with a leadership emphasis. As a Crime Scene Supervisor, he assigns and evaluates the work of others on his team while ensuring compliance with department policies, procedures, rules, and regulations. He reads and reviews crime scene technician's reports and work methods, evaluates case handling and results, performs administrative duties, and makes court appearances to offer testimony. Desjardins has also attended numerous training programs during his career.
Other positions held by Desjardins include:
- Crime Scene Supervisor at Mesa Police Department (AZ)
- Crime Scene Unit Technician at Mesa Police Department (AZ)
- Detention Officer at Mesa Police Department (AZ)
- Sergeant, Plant Security at Allied-Signal Aerospace (AZ)
- Security Officer for Pedus Security Services (AZ)
- Military Police Officer for U.S. Army Reserves (AZ)
- Military Police Officer for U.S. Army (CA)
Desjardins' professional affiliations include:
- International Association for Identification (2001-Present, active member)
- International Crime Scene Investigators Association (2010-Present, active member)
- Arizona Identification Council (1998-Present, active member)
- Arizona Homicide Investigator’s Association (2010-Present, active member)
- Fraternal Order of Police Associates (2003-Present, President)
- National Association of Field Training Officers (1999-2000, former member)
Product Chair: LiveScan Plus / Digital PhotoManager / Inmate Tracking
Sergeant Chris Neal, Florence County Sheriff's Office (SC)
Product Chair: NIST Manager Plus , Biometrics, Facial Recognition, & Mobile ID
Pete Langenfeld, Section Leader, Michigan State Police
Pete Langenfeld, section manager for the Michigan State Police’s Digital Image Analysis Section, has been employed in the criminal justice field for 20 years. He worked for 12 years with the Michigan State Department of Corrections and eight years with the Michigan State Police.
As a section manager, Pete is responsible for the statewide network of agency photos, which includes more than 6 million images. He also manages the agency’s Crime Scene Repository, which is being converted into a DataWorks Plus solution; the agency’s Forensic Art Program, which includes six forensic artists; and the Forensic Audio and Video Unit, which is soon expected to be fully operational. Pete also is a member of the Facial Identification Scientific Work Group (FISWG).
Product Chair: Digital CrimeScene
Melissa Southern, Forensic Photographer, City-County Bureau of Identification, Raleigh, NC
Product Chair: Fusionim, ASPEN-RMS, E-citation
Eric Webb, Pennsylvania JNet
Eric Webb holds a BS Degree in Sociology as well as an Associate of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from York College of Pennsylvania. He was a probation and parole officer in York County, PA, where he developed and administered the department’s new officer orientation program.
Eric has been with the Pennsylvania Justice Network (JNET), where he serves as the County Deployment Coordinator, since 2004. In this capacity, Eric was the liaison between 90 municipal police ASPEN-RMS clients and JNET, the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC), the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association (PCPA), the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD), the Pennsylvania Local Technology workgroup (LTW), and DataWorks Plus (DWP).
ASPEN-RMS clients in Pennsylvania are currently developing an e-filing exchange with the Pennsylvania courts as well as utilization of the Fusion product for data mining, analysis, and crime mapping.
Activity Coordinator
Deputy Sheriff Dennis Cheshier, Riverside County Sheriff's Department (CA)
Deputy Cheshier has worked for the Riverside County Sheriff's Department since April 2001. His assignments have included Patrol Deputy, Street Enforcement Team member, and Field Training Officer. Deputy Cheshier is currently serving at CAL-ID Riverside as an instructor, field operations advisor and operative.
Deputy Cheshier is a graduate of Park University in Parkville, MO. He retired from the US Marine Corps in April, 2001 with 22 years of service.
Treasurer / Secretary
Francis Wallis, Sacramento County Sheriff's Department (CA)
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