From: <MINIMIN> To: USANYS-CRIMINAL AUSAS <[email protected]> Cc: "a" Subject: Discovery and Disclosure Practices -- Update Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 16:50:46 +0000 All: Over the last several months, the executive staff has been giving a great deal of thought to ways in which we can enhance the Office's effectiveness in satisfying our discovery and disclosure obligations. Although that process is continuing, I want to provide you with an update about some measures that we are implementing immediately, based on feedback we received from you and your unit chiefs. First, I am pleased to announce that we will maintain a standing Disclosure Committee to help the Office navigate our discovery and disclosure challenges on an ongoing basis. The Disclosure Committee will be led by co-chair- and its members will be Second, we have enlisted a Technology Working Group to evaluate possible approaches to improving our technological and administrative support for your work, in close consultation with and our IT staff. That group is led by a, and its members are Third, we recognize that the substantive work of each unit may present particular discovery challenges. To ensure that AUSAs are familiar with the particular issues that may arise with respect to the work of a particular unit, unit chiefs will provide training for new AUSAs who arrive in their unit as part of the onboarding process, with an emphasis on the subject-matter-specific discovery and disclosure issues that they are likely to encounter as part of the unit's work. Fourth, in advance of charging senior unit cases, AUSAs will conduct agency case file reviews to ensure we have full visibility on material subject to disclosure—and are not relying solely on agents to surface materials subject to disclosure. While this will not be required in all junior unit cases, agency file reviews should be conducted in General Crimes and Narcotics cases where unit chiefs deem it appropriate. The Di