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FAQ: Interviewing Tolling/Mitigation Witnesses

Question:
I have identified a duplication in the Work Center Description.  The task code INVE02 (Obtain Records and Background Evidence) includes Work Center Description 10.2.4, Interview tolling/mitigation witnesses including friends, neighbors, teachers and classmates, counselors, prior employers and co-workers.  But, task code INVE05 (Prepare & Conduct Witness Interviews) includes Work Center Description 10.5.1, which contains the exact same language: “Interview tolling/mitigation witnesses, including friends, neighbors, teachers and classmates, counselors, prior employers and co-workers, etc.”  

What is the distinction, or is either code appropriate for that specific task? 

Answer:
Use task code INVE05.  You have identified a “typo” – an inadvertent duplication in the Work Center Description.  Note, however, that the duplication appears only on the non-trial Work Center Description between INVE02/WCD 10.2.4 (Obtain records and background evidence) and INVE05/WCD 10.5.1 (Prepare and conduct witness interviews).  Since witness interviews are the specific subject of INVE05 in both the non-trial and trial WCD's, INVE05 should be the task chosen to reflect a witness interview. 




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