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In March 2025, members of the ASPIRE team in partnership with Southern University Police Department will host a law enforcement engagement session focused on understanding and overcoming the barriers smaller agencies have when recruiting. The town-hall style session will focus on collaborative brainstorming between smaller agencies to understand how they may more successfully engage with potential recruits. The townhall will consist of two recruiting staff from four municipal and tribal police departments.

General inquiries and questions, as well as requests for one-on-one Technical Assistance, are processed through our Virtual Help Desk (TeamDynamix).

The RNPG consists of the six RISS Directors. The RNPG convenes to discuss RISS priorities, initiatives, technology efforts, and other matters. RISS TA staff support and present at the RNPG meetings.

RISS TA participate and support monthly RISS Directors conference calls.

The RISS TA team participate in monthly calls with the RNPG chair and vice chair to discuss RISS initiatives, provide updates, and receive direction.

The RTAC focuses on internal technology-related policies.

The Safer Schools Community of Practice is designed with the purpose of bringing together school safety practitioners for collaborative discussions to identify best practices and model polices, support problem solving, and recognize emerging trends related to school safety strategies and policies. The insights gathered in this forum will be utilized to guide the program's comprehensive technical assistance, subject-expert working groups, resource development, and training deliverables.

In December 2024, the project team in partnership with IACLEA conducted a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) focus group at the University of Central Florida to further learn recruitment and retention insights from diverse communities. The focus group consisted of 5 female students from various majors, such as Criminal Justice, Political Science and Criminal and Law Deviance.

RTI TA team met with the individual providing programming for the COSSUP grant. There seems to be a disconnect between programming and the funding/grants management portion. Will follow-up with a call that includes BJA.