Juvenile Justice Agencies

The JJSC will establish and convene a collaborative jail advisory group drawing from the DOJ Jails Support and Technical Assistance Work Group and national stakeholder groups.

Delivered a plenary session on priorities for PREA implementation at a gathering of PREA professionals sponsored by Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice.

Six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her Colorado home on Christmas Day in 1996. This presentation will first provide an overview of the publicly available evidence and identify investigative challenges with this unsolved case. Then the presenter, an experienced former federal prosecutor who was not involved in the investigation, will describe the present and emerging high technology and digital evidence that might be available if the same crime happened in 2023.

This presentation will describe the present and emerging high technology and digital evidence that can further an investigation and prosecution. It will explore new ways to investigate and prosecute cases using a new functional approach to high technology and digital evidence. This will include discussions of cell phone tracking, IoT evidence, DNA, open-source intelligence, smart homes, smartphones, geolocation, and other potential sources of evidence.

Training Title: Ask the Expert: Steve DeBrota on Prosecution and Investigative Strategies

This training provides investigative techniques, legal strategies, case studies, and forensic research from Purdue University and the National White-Collar Crime Center concerning how to understand, collect, interpret, and explain wearable fitness device evidence in legal proceedings. This includes medicolegal issues in violent crimes investigations, such as time of death, cause of death, and relevant vital signs.

Title of the training: Narrowing the IoT Divide: Officer Safety in the Digital Age

This training provides investigative techniques, legal strategies, case studies, and forensic research from Purdue University and the National White-Collar Crime Center concerning how to understand, collect, interpret, and explain wearable fitness device evidence in legal proceedings. This includes medicolegal issues in violent crimes investigations, such as time of death, cause of death, and relevant vital signs.

Title of the training: New Approaches to IOT Crime Scene Analysis in 2024

This training provides investigative techniques, legal strategies, case studies, and forensic research from Purdue University and the National White-Collar Crime Center concerning how to understand, collect, interpret, and explain wearable fitness device evidence in legal proceedings. This includes medicolegal issues in violent crimes investigations, such as time of death, cause of death, and relevant vital signs.

Title of the training: Practical Analysis Methods Wearable & Indoor IOT Device Data

This training provides investigative techniques, legal strategies, case studies, and forensic research from Purdue University and the National White-Collar Crime Center concerning how to understand, collect, interpret, and explain wearable fitness device evidence in legal proceedings. This includes medicolegal issues in violent crimes investigations, such as time of death, cause of death, and relevant vital signs.

Title of the training: Reconsidering a Famous Crime with Modern Digital Evidence

Engage in discussion with tribal and state law enforcement and corrections personnel to aid in the development of culturally responsive practices for working with tribal populations experiencing trauma and substance use disorders. Summarize key components and benefits of a law enforcement led intervention and deflection program. Discuss ways to build tribal community partnerships to provide comprehensive resources and services to tribal members in the criminal justice system. Deploy action planning steps to implement culturally responsive law enforcement and corrections practices.

January 2024 the PRC secured Alex Stojsavljevic, from the PREA Management Office at BJA to speak. Stoysavljevic presented to the members on the importance of direct care staff establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries with the juveniles they supervise. Establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries establishes a more effective staff-to-youth relationship which can help prevent inappropriate relationships from developing between staff and youth.