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Chapter 5 Meeting Minutes – August 2018

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CHAPTER 5 PEAF MEETING
AUGUST 14, 2018
HOSTED BY: Fort Myers Police Department
3903 Martin Luther King Blvd (Enterprise Complex)

Meeting called to order at 10 A.M. by Beverly Hunt

Thanks to Fort Myers Police Department for providing the venue and hosting.
 
Attendees (26) introduced themselves to the group.
 
Secretary Tonya gave a brief rundown of the previous meeting.
 
Treasurer Rob Aponte gave a treasury report. As of May 15, 2018 there was $288 available to the Chapter. Money is also used to help with expenses for the sponsors of the meetings.
** President Beverly said that Chapter 5 will be donating a gift basket of some sort to the conference**
 
Meeting Business:
 
Vice President Position still open…
*Nominations made for Andrea (Andi) Delisle
·      Kay Bradshaw second
·      Andrea accepted nomination (now Vice President for Chapter 5)
 
Beverly announced that the Conference was a sellout (21 out of 50 Chapter 5 members going)
 
Also discussed was the communications through member planet.
 
Alexandra King from FDLE said a few words and mentioned the updated Evidence Submission Manual
 
Speaker: Kyle Keenan – DEA / Special Agent / Paramedic
 
Main focus was on the packaging, handling and storage of Fentanyl
 
Fentanyl is very bad… only 2.5 MG can kill someone.
Exposure – inhalation, ingestion, absorption by skin and flesh. **eyes, nose and mouth**
**DO NOT use germ X because the alcohols in germ X will help it seep into your skin**
NarCan is the Antidote. Comes in an injection (epi pen like) or Nasal spray 4MG
 
DOD treats Fentanyl as a weapon with potential for WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) applications. 

Decon: 10:1 bleach solution
 
Round table discussion:
            Question asked about who handles inmate property in Evidence?
            Question asked about how long money is held?
                        Hold until case is finished.
            Question asked about what is done with Jewelry and do you have it appraised first?
                        Answers ranged from auctions, donations and no appraisals
 
$21 dollars was collected for the treasury and ended with $309 at the end of this meeting.
 
Meeting adjourned at 1206 p.m. and lunch on your own.
 
Next Chapter 5 Meeting will be held November 15, 2018 at Cape Coral Police Department
 
Submitted by:
Tonya Jennings, Secretary

PEAF Executive Board Meeting Minutes – June 30, 2018

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PEAF Executive Board Meeting Agenda
University of Central Florida Police Department
June 30, 2018

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 Welcome all members – Introduction of board members

  • In attendance were the President Sheila Lustigman, Vice President John Briney, Secretary Lisa Spencer, Historian/Sgt. at Arms Scott Feldman, Communications Coordinator Kay Bradshaw, Education Coordinator Theresa Adams and Conference Coordinator Deborah Lanni

 Minutes of the April 21, 2018 meeting were tabled for review at the next meeting.

 Reports from Board Members

  • President-Sheila Lustigman
    • Old Business
      • Possible By-Law changes
      • An email was sent out for the Executive Board Members to review before the meeting, the proposed changes were also emailed after the meeting. Those proposed changes are in this email attachment.
      • All of the members will get the By-laws by email and also in person if they attend the conference. An absentee ballot will be included for anyone that is not able to attend the conference.
      • If a member has a question about a By-law change they shall submit the question in writing to the President, via email, for the question to be discussed at the conference.
  • Vice President-John Briney
    • Total Members
    • 372 voting members
    • The verification process of new members was discussed and determined that the Vice President isn’t seeing the membership applications; they go directly to the Treasurer. Theresa stated that in the past the Vice President would receive a paper copy of the application first. With the new website, the Vice President and the Treasurer should be notified about a new application at the same time.
    • The Chapter Presidents should maintain accurate files of their members and should notify the Vice President as changes arise.
    • Non-members will have the same fee of $25.00.
  • Status of Chapter Presidents
    • John has been in contact with all of the Chapter Presidents
    • The new President for Chapter 4 is Mike Heneks.
  • Treasurer-not in attendance
    • Account Balance
    • A balance sheet was provided with all the current information, this is in this email attachment.
  • Secretary-Lisa Spencer
    • Annual Report Discussion
    • The Annual Report will be for the fiscal year which is January through December.
    • A template was passed out, which is also in this email attachment, also an email will be sent out to all of the Executive Board Members so that they can make any suggestions to add to the Annual Report.
  • Communications Coordinator-Kay Bradshaw
    • Newsletter Update
      • The next newsletter will be sent out in September
    • A survey was sent out yesterday about the Roundtable for the conference.
  • Education Coordinator-Theresa Adams
    • Conference Speaker Update
    • Committee Update
      • The new Certification Committee Members that have filled the vacant positions are Brooke Green from Sarasota PD and Diane Foreman from St. Augustine PD.
    • Paula Ostermeyer was terminated by her agency.
    • Certification and Re-certification
      • The Certification Committee met today, they are working on the certification class.
    • Slogan Contest
      • Theresa will be sending out the information to the Executive Board to decide on a slogan. Deadline is June 30th.
    • Sgt. At Arms/Historian-Scott Feldman
      • PEAF External Hard drive download at each Board Meeting
      • The downloading of the hard drives has been completed.

 NewBusiness-SheilaLustigman

  • IRS status with Fiscal Year
    • The taxes were filed incorrectly,
      • The wrong year was filed, but this has been fixed. The fiscal year is still showing from April to March, the IRS wasn’t notified by PEAF of the change. The paperwork will be filed to change this to January to December; this is also in the proposed By-law changes.
      • We were filing under the 990N status, this is for nonprofit organizations that have under $50,000, and we are over this amount.
      • We need to file correctly. Lori has provided the information to Sheila and Sheila will get with the CPA, Robert Garick, and his number is 561-504-9041.
      • $150 an hr. for consultation, which will satisfy the financial review.
      • 990EZ is the form that we need to utilize because our annual income is over $50,000.
  • Detailed Certification Requirements, add to By-laws?
    • Yes, this needs to be added to the By-laws.
  • Detailed Responsibilities of each Executive Board Member
    • Sheila will be following this up with an email.
  • Time line for items leading up to Conference
    • Proposed deadline for nominations of Board positions will be July 15th acceptance of the nomination along with a bio will need to be submitted by July 22nd.
  • ESOY-Evidence Specialist of the Year
    • This is an Executive Board decision, the decision is made by looking at information without knowing the names.
  • Next Board Meeting July 28, Orlando
    • Adjourn at 1619
  • Theresa Adams motioned to adjourn the meeting, Scott Feldman seconded the motion.

Chapter 7 Meeting Notes – July 2018

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Property and Evidence Association of Florida
Chapter # 7
Minutes of Meeting
Date 05/09/2018
Agency Name St Johns County Sheriff’s Office

Attendance:
Diane Foreman
Lisa Spencer
Jennifer Ferraro
Rebecca Andrews
Gerilynn Baron
Lisa McLean
Raymond Norton
Gregory Dixon
Angie Hosford
Elvis Guzman
Vicki Schmechel
Adrean King

The meeting was called to order at 1300 hrs.

General Comments about approval of minutes and guest speaker N/A

Old Business N/A

New Business
Discussion of the upcoming conference:
Magician on Tuesday night
Vendors speaking to us as a group, instead of trying to talk and sign cards
Having several Round Table discussions, having a facilitator and scribe, choosing the one we want to go to, and getting copies of all.
If there are any complainants about the hotel to come to a member of the executive board with complaint.
Talked about PEAF having its own booth at the conference, selling items with the PEAF logo. A couple of suggestions were: a bottle opener with a cuzzi, and a zippered notebook. They will email mw with any other suggestions by the end of June
SJSO is going to try and get logoed items to donate.
Chapter 7 voted no on donating a gift basket as we have no funds.

Discussions
Talked about agencies that are not members of PEAF, i.e. Orange Park and Jacksonville Beach.
Also to think about any speakers that we could have come and speak at one of out chapter meetings.
Talked about whether officers were testing Fentanyl.
And about the type of duplicating machine each agency uses.
No meeting until after the conference.

There being no further business to discuss, the meeting was adjourned at 1340 hrs.

Chapter 1 Meeting Minutes – June 2018

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Thursday, June 7, 2018

Attendance:

Melbourne PD
Sebastian PD
Titusville PD
Fort Pierce PD
Palm Bay PD
Indialantic PD		 Port St. Lucie PD
St. Lucie SO
West Melbourne PD
Indian River Crime Lab
Indian River SO
Vero Beach PD

The meeting was called to order at 1100 hrs.

Officer Johnny Rodriguez with the Melbourne PD spoke to the group about being a canine officer, including the training necessary to become a certified handler.

Jackie Moore, Evidence Coordinator with the Indian River Crime Lab spoke to the group regarding IRCL’s intake and analysis procedures.

Old Business

  • Confirm that your contact information is correct on MemberPlanet
  • 2018 Conference is August 27-29 at the Wyndham Resort in Orlando. Certification test will be on the 30th
  • Let us know if you have any ideas or requests for guest speakers for our meetings
  • Also let us know if you have any items from your department to contribute to raffles.

New Business

  • Most of the pins have been given out for the last round of people who had passed the 2017 Certification test. Those of you in Martin County, please get with Colleen for your pins.
  • Nominations are being accepted for President, Treasurer, and Educational Coordinator for PEAF. You may nominate yourself or another person.
  • There are two scholarships for attendance to this years conference.
  • Submit contenders for the annual slogan competition
  • Conference flyer and agenda are attache

Discussions

  • FES = issues with people not wanting to be run through FES; non-approvals; approvals but shouldn’t have been approved (medical paperwork voluntarily given to deputy said no firearms); timeframe for holding firearms
  • Narcan availability = sworn v. non-sworn

There being no further business to discuss, the meeting was adjourned at 1315 hrs.

Welcome!

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Welcome to the new PEAF public website.  All property and evidence professionals are invited to review the information posted on this site.  While it is our hope that every P&E professional will want to join PEAF, we understand that sometimes it is not possible.  The information provided below will help you navigate this site.

Registration

  • Registration is required for access to the Forums.  The public forms are limited to questions regarding the association itself and how to join or become a certified evidence specialist.
  • To register, hover over the Home button in the menu then click Registration.  You can also click the registration link found at the bottom of the page.
  • You must complete all required items in the registration form, including your agency name and contact information.

Logging In

  • You can log in by either hovering over the Home button then clicking Login, or you can log in using the form found at the bottom of the page.

Lost Password

  • You can reset your password using the Forgot Password link at the bottom of the Home page.

Chapter News and Information

  • To access news and information such as meeting minutes about a specific chapter, hover over the PEAF Blog button and click on the chapter number.  Recent chapter posts are listed in the Recent Posts section.

Contact Information

  • Hover over the Membership button to find contact information for the PEAF Executive Board and each of the individual chapter presidents.

Chapter 4 Meeting

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Please join us at our next Chapter 4 meeting at 1100 hrs on Tuesday, July 17, 2018. Our host will be the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.  The meeting will be held at the POA Hall, located at 4500 SW 13th Street, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33317.  The speaker will be Special Investigations Detective John Loges, DEA Task Force Member, who will talk about contemporary issues with synthetic drugs including Fentanyl.

Lunch will be provided, so please R.S.V.P. no later than July 10th to ahusted@fortlauderdale.gov so we can get an accurate head count.

We look forward to seeing all of you there. 

Chapter 8 Meeting Minutes – April 2018

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Minutes from the PEAF Meeting on 04/04/2018

On Wednesday 04/04/2018 at 3:30 pm, the Chapter 8 members of PEAF held a meeting at the LeonCounty Sheriff’s Office. We had a speaker Detective Michael Crego from the Leon County Sheriff’sNarcotics Division. The talk was about the Handling of Narcotics, the following points were some of the information we received.

  • Paraphernalia is often a larger hazard than the drug itself
  • Use Universal Precautions always
  • Home cooked Meth is becoming rare (but is still seen occasionally)
  • Butane Hash Oil is referred to as wax, bitter or shatter commonly used in E-cigarettes
  • Synthetic Drugs- largest difficulty is identifying the substance
  • Spice- is now called on the street (Togee)
  • Fentanyl and Carfentanil- Originally used as pain medication for cancer but now is taken by opioid addicts.
  • Carfentanil is sold as heroin
  • LSD- still sees, but seems as though there is a resurgence of use
  • Prescription Pills- Carry little risk of exposure
  • Opioid prescription pills are sometimes counterfeited using Fentanyl and Carfentanil

Spoke about risks associated by exposure- Absorption is the biggest risk, and Universal Precautions isalways imperative for everyone’s welfare and safety

Spoke about the Drug Narcan which can bring someone from the brink of death back with an injection (like the Epipen), stated every law enforcement officer in the area should have access to the drug. One officer stated he witnessed the use of the injection and the recovery for the patient was amazing. Locally our LCEMS and FHP carry the drug. Suggested that our members should let our leaders know how important Narcan is to the officers dealing with drug overdoses.

Steve our president came up to ask if there were any questions, and stated that another meeting would be held before the conference in late August. Our chapter will need to elect another Vice President before the end of the year, please consider occupying this seat. The meeting was then adjourned.

Chapter 7 Meeting Minutes – May 2018

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Attendance:

Diane Foreman
Lisa Spencer
Jennifer Ferraro
Rebecca Andrews
Gerilynn Baron
Lisa McLean		 Raymond Norton
Gregory Dixon
Angie Hosford
Elvis Guzman
Vicki Schmechel
Adrean King

The meeting was called to order at 1300 hrs.

General Comments about approval of minutes and guest speaker N/A

Old Business N/A

 

New Business

  • Discussion of the upcoming conference:
  • Magician on Tuesday night
  • Vendors speaking to us as a group, instead of trying to talk and sign cards
  • Having several Round Table discussions, having a facilitator and scribe, choosing the one we want to go to, and getting copies of all.
  • If there are any complainants about the hotel to come to a member of the executive board with complaint.
  • Talked about PEAF having its own booth at the conference, selling items with the PEAF logo. A couple of suggestions were: a bottle opener with a cuzzi, and a zippered notebook. They will email mw with any other suggestions by the end of June
  • SJSO is going to try and get logoed items to donate.
  • Chapter 7 voted no on donating a gift basket as we have no funds.

Discussions

  • Talked about agencies that are not members of PEAF, i.e. Orange Park and Jacksonville Beach.
  • Also to think about any speakers that we could have come and speak at one of out chapter meetings.
  • Talked about whether officers were testing Fentanyl.
  • And about the type of duplicating machine each agency uses.
  • No meeting until after the conference.

There being no further business to discuss, the meeting was adjourned at 1340 hrs.