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Reference Document List

International 

Council of Europe

Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (1981) 

Disaster Action (UK) 

Disaster Victim Identification: Issues for Families and Implications for Police Family Liaison Officers and Coroner’s Offices

International Committee of the Red Cross 

Missing people, DNA analysis and identification of human remains: A guide to best practice in armed conflicts and other 

situations of armed violence (2009) 

The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols (2010)

ICRC Report: The Missing and Their Families (2003)

INTERPOL

Disaster Victim Identification Guide (2009) 

Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization

Management of Dead Bodies after Disasters: A Field Manual for First Responders (2009)

Management of Dead Bodies in Disaster Situations (2004)

Mass Fatality Plan Checklist for Ministries of Health and National Disaster Offices

United Kingdom 

London Mass Fatality Plan (2010; Version 3)

Addressing Lessons from the Emergency Response to the July 7 2005 London Bombings (2006)

Guidance on Disaster Victim Identification (2011)

United Nations

International Human Rights Law 

Guidelines for the regulation of computerized personal data files (1990)

United States

American Academy of Forensic Sciences

Bylaws, Article II. Code of Ethics and Conduct (2013)

American Association of Blood Banks

Guidelines for Mass Fatality DNA Identification Operations (2010)

American Board of Forensic Odontology 

Diplomates Reference Manual (2013) 

American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board

Guiding Principles of Professional Responsibility for Crime Laboratories and Forensic Scientists, AL-PD-3040-Ver 1.0 (2013)

Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams

DMORT Standard Operating Procedures for National Transportation Safety Board Activations (2006)

Flight 93 Morgue Protocols (2001)

Victim Identification Program (VIP) Postmortem & Antemortem Forms
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National Association of Medical Examiners

Mass Fatality Plan (2010)

National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME). (2006). Forensic Autopsy Performance Standards. 

National Electrical Manufacturers Association

The DICOM Standard (2011)

National Information Exchange Model

NIEM 2.1 (2009)

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NIST Special Publication 500-290 Version 2: Information Technology: American National Standard for Information Systems -

Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial, & Other Biometric Information (2013)

Law Enforcement Standards (2013)

National Transportation Safety Board

Mass Fatality Incident Family Assistance Operations: Recommended Strategies for Local and State Agencies

NTSB Federal Family Assistance Center Plan for Aviation Disasters

NTSB Federal Family Assistance Center Plan for Rail Passenger Accident

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Guidelines Governing the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data (1980)

Office of Research Integrity 

Guidelines for Responsible Data Management in Scientific Research (2006) 

Scientific Working Group for Medicolegal Death Investigation 

Principles for Communicating with Next of Kin during Medicolegal Death Investigations (2012)

U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command and Department of Justice

Capstone Document: Mass Fatality Management for Incidents Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction (2005)

U.S. Department of Defense

Joint Publication 4-06: Mortuary Affairs

Electronic Biometric Transmission Specification (2011)

U.S. Department of Justice

Mass Fatality Incidents: A Guide for Human Forensic Identification (2005) 

Lessons Learned From 9/11: DNA Identification in Mass Fatality Incidents (2006) 

Death Investigation: A Guide for the Scene Investigator (1999) 

Electronic Biometric Transmission Specification (2013)

Next Generation Identification (NGI) (2013)

Identifying Victims using DNA: A Guide for Families

Postmortem Fingerprinting Training Resources (2021)

State 

California

The California Mass Fatality Management Guide: A Supplement to the State of California Coroners' Mutual Aid Plan (2007)

Florida

Florida Emergency Mortuary Operations Response System Field Operations Guide (2011)
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New York City

Office of Chief Medical Examiner - All Hazards Mass Fatality Management Plan (2009)

Office of Chief Medical Examiner – Family Assistance Center Plan (2009)

Office of Chief Medical Examiner - Pandemic Influenza Surge Plan for Managing In- and Out-of-Hospital Deaths (2008)

Unified Victim Identification System (UVIS) Information Sheet (2013)

New York, New Jersey, Connecticut. Pennsylvania Regional Catastrophic Planning Team

Regional Mass Fatality Management Response System Plan

Seattle-King County 

Creating and operating a family assistance center: A toolkit for public health

Texas

Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences Mass Fatality Management Standard Operating Guide (2014)

Publications

Prinz, M., Carracedo, A., Mayr, W.R., Morling, N., Parsons, T.J., Sajantila, A., ... Schneider, P.M. (2007). DNA Commission of 

the International Society for Forensic Genetics (ISFG): Recommendations regarding the role of forensic genetics for 

disaster victim identification. Forensic Science International: Genetics, 1(1), 3-12.