Levin Center scholar to discuss ‘Oversight of U.S. Disaster Policy’
The Levin Center at Wayne State University Law School will present a webinar on “Oversight of U.S. Disaster Policy, 2016-2020” Thursday, June 24, from noon to 1:30 p.m. via Zoom.
As climate change intensifies hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, and wildfires across the country, understanding how the government oversees the response has never been more important.
The Levin Center will host a presentation by Levin Center Oversight Scholar Professor Kristin Taylor on federal oversight of U.S. disaster policy and programs from 2016 to 2020. Taylor will describe a new database and the innovative analytic techniques she used to explore oversight undertaken by both the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General related to short-term disaster recovery and long-term hazard mitigation policies.
Taylor was selected as the Levin Center Oversight Scholar for the 2020-2021 academic year and won a $17,000 award to support her disaster-related oversight work. Her scholarship examines the politics of disasters. She focuses on policy learning about hazard mitigation in federal systems of government. Taylor’s work has been published in Policy Studies Journal, Administration & Society, Review of Policy Research, and the Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy.
To register for the free webinar, visit https://rsvp.wayne.edu/levin-center-oversight-scholar-oversight-of-disaster-preparedness. For additional information, email Margaux Laspeyres at margaux.laspeyres@wayne.edu.
‘A Study in Firearms & Ballistics’ offered online by CDAM July 2
The Criminal Defense Association of Michigan will present the webinar “A Study in Firearms & Ballistics” via Zoom on Friday, July 2, from 10 a.m. to noon. This online program will feature Christopher Robinson, a forensic consultant in Atlanta.
Robinson has been in the forensic field for nearly 23 years. He worked for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for 10 years as a firearms examiner and then became the director of the Crime Lab for the City of Atlanta Police Department and held that position for 2 1/2 years. He now has my own company, Chris Robinson Forensics and has held that position for the past 11 years. He has worked over 11000 cases and has testified approximately 800 times. He has been involved in cases in over 25 states and is also a consultant for CNN, Headline News, and numerous other television shows. He is certified in the areas of firearms and ballistics, gunshot residue analysis, blood spatter analysis, and crime scene reconstruction.
Registrants can join webinar by clicking the Zoom registration link provided in the automatically generated email sent upon completion of webinar registration. Those attending must use their registration name to ensure admittance to the webinar. Zoom will then email a direct link to the webinar. No passcode will be needed. Registrants should allow extra time to complete this process and to make certain that they can log in to the webinar and hear everything. For those who cannot attend the webinar, it will be available for on demand viewing.
Cost for the webinar is $30. To register for the online program, visit https://cdam.wildapricot.org.
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