Investigative Standards
Chapter 1: 5 Ways to Build Stronger Cases
Posted by Dawn Lomer on July 25th, 2011
Chapter 1: Investigative Standards
By setting and monitoring standards for the execution of each investigation, an enterprise can show that the process produced credible results and complied with requirements of law and internal control. Law prefers that organizations regulate themselves. In the US, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines teach that the legal system will reward an organization, when it gets into legal trouble, if it maintained a genuine legal compliance program. The i-Sight solution fosters and documents compliance and self-regulation. It does this by recording the steps of each investigation and issuing timely notices and reminders to those responsible for each step. It urges supervisors, executives, or even representatives of a board of directors, to monitor the progress of an investigation. i-Sight's documentation of notices, reminders and monitoring can confirm for a court or government authority that, in fact, the organization was regulating itself, even if particular employees engaged in unethical or illegal activity. i-Sight software has the capacity to enforce rules that govern the processes in an investigation. For instance, a rule might stipulate that a certain threshold of evidence is necessary after an initial inquiry, otherwise the investigation ends. Chapter 2: Case Management System: Labels and NoticesChapter 3: Case Management System: Audit TrailsChapter 4: Case Management System: Software as a ServiceChapter 5: Case Management System: Flexibility
Dawn Lomer
Manager of Communications
Dawn Lomer is the Manager of Communications at i-Sight Software and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). She writes about topics related to workplace investigations, ethics and compliance, data security and e-discovery, and hosts i-Sight webinars.
