Federal Justice

    Cognitive Interviewing & Courtroom Testimony (Webinar)

    Have you ever wanted to communicate more effectively? Relate better to the jury while testifying? Be more successful and obtain more information while interviewing? This webinar will give participants techniques and insight on how to employ cognitive interviewing skills to interview suspects, witnesses, and victims. Participants will gain a better understanding of human behavior as it relates to neuroscience and become more effective in obtaining information and having suspects, witnesses, and victims cooperate.

    Webinar - The Changing Nature of Crime and Criminal Investigations

    Crime is evolving rapidly, creating new challenges for law enforcement agencies. By using computers, communications platforms, and other technologies, criminals commit crimes that were unheard of a decade or two ago, while also finding different ways to commit traditional crimes. For law enforcement agencies to keep up in this new environment, they must change their approach to criminal investigations. Physical evidence and witness statements are no longer sufficient in many cases.

    Emerging Legal Issues in Tech: From the Cloud Act to Hacking Back

    This webinar is intended for LAW ENFORCEMENT personnel: those who are directly attached to or work in support of a law enforcement agency. Please register using your agency-issued email.

    This webinar will discuss the following topics:

    • The Cloud Act,
    • Border Searches of Technology,
    • Right to be Forgotten,
    • Revisions to Federal Rules of Evidence,
    • Hacking Back and the Law, and
    • Compelled Decryption.

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    The Benefits of Triage: How to Quick Start Your Digital Investigation

    Learn the art of digital forensic triage - how to conduct an initial investigation quickly based on the scope of the investigation you are about to conduct. If 90 percent of cases can be solved with 10 percent of the data, let's get to that point early and make decisions on the need for further deep dive, due diligence, or peace of mind examination of devices based off facts.

    To the Cloud! Get the Evidence You Need to Move Cases Forward

    Some of the most important sources of evidence in a criminal investigation are also the hardest to get. An encrypted, password-protected mobile device can be useless if you have no way to get the password. Social media providers are infamous for their red tape, delaying your returns for weeks or even months. And, if you’re in a country other than where the provider is located, mutual legal assistance treaties can take years to process. Fortunately, there is a solution: obtain the evidence directly from cloud-based user accounts.

    Law Enforcement Cyber Center: A Valuable Resource for Investigators (Webinar)

    The Law Enforcement Cyber Center (LECC) was developed to enhance the awareness, expand the education, and build the capacity of justice and public safety agencies to prevent, investigate, prosecute, and respond to cyber threats and cyber crimes. It is intended to be a national resource for law enforcement and related justice and public safety entities. During the webinar, participants will review the website and learn about the many valuable resources that can be utilized.

    Introduction to FinCEN (Webinar)

    This webinar is intended for LAW ENFORCEMENT personnel: those who are directly attached to or work in support of a law enforcement agency. Please register using your agency-issued email.

    This webinar is intended as a Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) overview. It will include information on products and services, Bank Secrecy Act records and information, and how FinCEN is used in investigations.

    Presented by: James Emery, FinCEN.

    Learning from Error in Criminal Justice: A Sentinel Events Approach

    In criminal justice, a “sentinel event” is a bad outcome that might include a death in custody, routine police encounter that escalates to violence, mishandling of evidence, wrongful conviction, or “near miss,” in which a negative event is narrowly avoided. Too often, the criminal justice system fails to learn from these bad outcomes. Drawing inspiration from aviation, medicine, and other high-risk fields, the Sentinel Events Initiative (SEI) takes an alternative approach.

    Aerial Data: Introduction to Drone Investigations (Webinar)

    With applications from aerial photography to racing to delivery services, drones are becoming more and more popular in both commercial and recreational spaces. Criminal use of drones is also increasing, and drone forensics is quickly becoming an important subfield of digital forensics. This presentation introduces the history of drones and the ways they are commonly used, both legitimately and in relation to a crime, and focuses on the ways law enforcement can gather and analyze evidence involving drones.

    Webinar - Introducing the Public Safety Risk Assessment Clearinghouse

    The Public Safety Risk Assessment Clearinghouse (PSRAC), developed in partnership between the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center (Urban), is a new, one-stop online resource for comprehensive and accessible information on risk assessment for safer communities.

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