In addition to investigating and litigating claims of wrongful conviction based on factual innocence, Maitreya is involved in policy advocacy in support of reforming the procedures California police departments use in obtaining eyewitness identification evidence. Eyewitness misidentification is the single largest contributor to wrongful convictions, and Maitreya is currently working with a number of allies in police and sheriffs departments statewide to bring about the adoption of updated procedures designed to reduce the likelihood that a witness will wrongly identify an innocent suspect. She will discuss the social science research that supports the proposed reforms, and give an overview of the progress in California and other states to replace outmoded investigative methods with practices that have been demonstrated in clinical and field studies to improve the reliability of eyewitness evidence.