Leaders

740-845-2222 | Jill.Small@OhioAGO.gov

A veteran at BCI, Small joined the bureau in 1997 as an Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) operator. Since then, she has worked in various sections, affording her broad knowledge of BCI, which aids her work as director of the Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway, the network that helps Ohio law enforcement agencies share criminal justice data. In this role, she oversees the OHLEG support, communication room and quality assurance divisions. Those sections provide critical assistance, training and auditing of OHLEG for all criminal justice agencies throughout Ohio and in surrounding states.

Director of Identification since 2019, Owens leads a team that manages Ohio’s criminal master files — more than 6 million records that include details on criminal charges and suspects’ demographics — and conducts more than 1.5 million civilian background checks a year. Under her watch, BCI is moving to fully digitize all of these records.

Before joining BCI, Owens served 11 years as identification manager for the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office. She previously served 17 years with the Columbus Division of Police as a fingerprint examiner, supervisor and project manager for the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS).

Owens also serves on the FBI’s Advisory Policy Board’s Identification Services Subcommittee and chairs the biometrics “Subject Matter Experts” for the FBI’s Identification Services Coordination Group.

740-845-2430 | Mark.Kollar@OhioAGO.gov

Special Agent-In-Charge Kollar joined BCI in 2008 and was promoted to his role over the Technical Investigations division in 2022.

Kollar most recently served as the statewide coordinator for officer-involved critical incident investigations. He previously led BCI’s Special Investigations Unit, Company B, made up of the northeast quarter for the state, supervising high-profile criminal investigations, including those centered on officer-involved shootings, homicides, serial crimes, public official corruption, sexual assaults and large-scale financial crimes.

A graduate of Hocking College and Ohio University, Kollar has written several books and is a frequent contributor to law enforcement publications. His most recent book, “Best Practices for Investigating An Officer-Involved Critical Incident,” published by the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, is a nationally recognized manual for law enforcement investigations of such incidents.

740-845-2123 | Roger.Davis@OhioAGO.gov

Special Agent-In-Charge Davis joined BCI in 2005 and was promoted to his role over BCI Special Investigations in 2022.

Davis most recently served as the statewide supervisor for BCI’s newly formed multidisciplinary Cold Case Unit, which reviews and analyzes unsolved homicides and sexual assaults in conjunction with BCI’s laboratory and criminal intelligence units.

Davis has previously supervised the Southwest Special Investigations and Southern Crimes Against Children units that centered around high-profile criminal investigations, including officer-involved shootings, homicides, serial crimes, public official corruption, sexual assaults, large-scale financial crimes, and cases involving juvenile victims, including online cyber oriented child pornography, physical or sexual abuse, and juvenile death investigations.

Davis has a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati, a master's degree in criminal justice from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, and is a graduate of the FBI National Leadership Academy. He has more than 27 years of law enforcement experience and is a frequent contributor and presenter on cold case and death investigative strategies and methodology.