Meet the Expert, Forensic Science: Gregory Laskowski VIRTUAL EVENT

CSI: Bakersfield

DECEMBER 08, 2022

5:30PM

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Mr. Laskowski will define and describe the duties of crime scene investigators, criminalists, and forensic scientists using video clips from CSI: Crime Scene Investigations and BONES. How these different occupations interact in Bakersfield and Kern County will be described including details from a local case of historical significance titled, “An Unusual Toolmark”  where some historical materials were stolen from a goldmine in Kern County.

Gregory E. Laskowski is a retired Supervising Criminalist with the Kern County District  Attorney Forensic Science Division in Bakersfield, California where he supervised the  Major Crimes Unit. He has over thirty years experience as a forensic scientist with both the Kern County Sheriff’s Department and the Kern County District Attorney’s Office.  His university degrees include a BS degree in Biochemistry from the University of  Southern California and a MPA degree from California State University Bakersfield.  Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor of Forensic Science at California State University  Bakersfield in addition to Oklahoma State University. He is the president of  Criminalistics Services International, LLC a forensic science education and consulting  firm. Gregory is a Diplomate with certification in Comprehensive Criminalistics with the  American Board of Criminalistics. 

In addition, Gregory has lectured on forensic science techniques and case histories in  the former Soviet Union, the FBI Academy in Quantico Virginia, and for various  professional societies and associations in the United States and Europe. He has  published papers in Journal of Forensic Sciences, The Journal of Identification, and  Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners Journal. His memberships in  professional associations include: Fellow of the Criminalistics section of the American  Academy of Forensic Sciences; Distinguished Member of the Association of Firearms  and Toolmark Examiners; Distinguished and Life Member of the International  Association for Identification, where he serves as the subcommittee Chairman for  General Forensics as well as a member of subcommittee on Firearms and Toolmarks,  and on the Science and Practices Committee; Member and past-president of the  California Association of Criminalists; and Member of the California Association Of  Crime Lab Directors, where he served on the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit  Standardization Committee. He is also a commissioner and certified inspector for the  Forensic Science Education Program Evaluation Commission FEPAC. 

Gregory also has consulted for the following television shows: CSI: and CSI: Miami, Law and Order, Numbers, Killer Instinct, Vanished, Bones, Rizzoli  and Isles, The Mob Doctor, and The Black List. He is also the subject of three Court TV television series Forensic Files episodes, which can be seen on the Headline News  Network (HLN)

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