Juvenile Justice Agencies

This course provides expert guidance in the skills law enforcement officers need to conduct successful online investigations. Topics include IP addresses and domains, an overview of currently popular social media platforms, best practices for building an undercover profile, foundational knowledge related to the dark web, and the use of the dark web as an investigative tool. Instructors demonstrate both open-source and commercially-available investigative tools for social engineering, information gathering, and artifacts related to social media; as well as automated utilities to capture information and crawl websites.

*Internet basics. IP address assignment; resolving domains and IP addresses; networking overview.
*Popular sites. Facebook, Twitter, KiK Messenger, Snapchat, Instagram, tumblr, and more.
*The dark web. Surface, deep, and dark web; how data flows through the internet. Who uses the dark web and how?
*Tor. How to access Tor; how Tor traffic works; how a Tor Hidden Service works; installing and configuring the Tor Browser Bundle.

This course covers the acquisition, examination, and analysis of many types of financial records, including bank statements and checks, wire transfer records, and business records. Topics include recognizing and investigating common indicators of fraud, using spreadsheets to facilitate analysis and pattern recognition, and financial profiling. There is a strong focus on presenting financial evidence in multiple modalities: spreadsheet data outputs, graphic representations, and written/oral presentations.

*Introduction to analysis. Best practices. Finding patterns. Indicators of fraud. Presenting your findings.
*Financial records. Bank records. Business documents.
*Financial profiling. Methods of profiling. Reasons to create a profile. Creating a profile.
*Hands-on experience. Work a mock financial case as part of an investigative team.

This course prepares students to identify various artifacts typically located in property lists and SQLite databases on MacOS-based computers, as well as learn how to perform forensic analysis. Students gain hands-on practical experience writing basic SQL queries and using to analyze operating system artifacts that includes, but is not limited to, user login passwords, FaceTime, messages, mail, contacts, calendars, reminders, notes, photos, Safari, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox.

One of the primary goals of law enforcement is to detect, interdict, and prevent violence. The collection and analysis of social media and Internet-based communications present interdiction and detection opportunities to prevent terrorism and targeted violence.

As we enter into the season of giving, it is equally as important to give back to YOU. This webinar will highlight reasons to ensure you remember why it is important to take care of your personal wellness for yourself, your family/friends, and your work.

This course provides hands-on investigative training at a basic level. Students develop the practical skills, insight, and knowledge necessary to manage a successful financial investigation from start to finish, including the acquisition and examination of financial records, interview skills, and case management and organization. Additional topics include forgery and embezzlement, financial exploitation of the elderly, working with spreadsheets, financial profiling, and state-specific statutes and legal issues.

*Emerging issues. Current trends in various types of financial crimes. Recent cases and their implications.
*Financial records. Learn to obtain and manage bank records, including basic spreadsheeting skills.
*Working with data. Extract leads and draw conclusions from bank records and other financial data.
*Hands-on experience. Work a mock financial case as part of an investigative team.

This training is intended for U.S. Criminal Justice Practitioners. Please register using your agency-issued email.

Your team, your tools, or your client may locate a social media user of interest or concern. Your analysis of the profile may become challenging if the user does not reveal their real identify. The presenter will discuss how to harness the Internet to identify the person or group behind a username. The presentation will include real case examples to demonstrate successful workflows. Learning objectives outline useful steps for identifying who is behind a username, explore case examples to retain those steps, and Introduce future challenges.

Presented by:
Megan Munoz, Director of Education and Knowledge Management, Hetherington Group

Building upon the previous cryptocurrency webinar, "Bitcoin 101: What Are Cryptocurrency and Blockchain All About?" presented by Cobwebs, this webinar will introduce investigative techniques to show how open-source information can be leveraged to attribute identities to wallets and addresses. This webinar will also briefly demonstrate the OSINT and cryptocurrency analysis capabilities of Cobwebs.

This training is intended for U.S. Criminal Justice Practitioners. Please register using your agency-issued email.

Undercover chat investigations are used to help intercept child predators from victimizing children in our communities. In this webinar, we will provide an overview of the chat techniques used in child exploitation cases. We will cover different apps that were used and how they assisted in identifying the targets and discuss some of the interview techniques that helped lead to confessions.

*This webinar is not a replacement for the ICAC UC Chat Investigations Course.

Presented by:
Moe McClanahan, High-Tech Crime Specialist, NW3C
Robert Leazenby, High-Tech Crimes Specialist Supervisor, NW3C
Brent Metcalfe, High-Tech Crime Specialist, NW3C

In this webinar, you will learn what dietary supplements are, what supplements can be helpful and which ones are risky or just a waste of money, supplements for different life stages and conditions, and where and how to buy quality supplements.

Presented by:
Rana Parker, MPH, RDN Dietitian Nutritionist, Los Angeles Police Department