Training

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.

Webinar - Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Outpatient Clinics: Using Behavioral Telehealth

The Bureau of Justice Assistance leadership, in collaboration with the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program team, will host a no-cost webinar on November 28, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. ET.

This session will highlight lessons learned from six medication-assisted treatment clinics in Florida by Operation PAR, Inc., which instituted the use of videoconferencing to enhance and expand service delivery. Videoconferencing refers to providing assessment, treatment, and recovery services online.

Panelists will discuss:

What is a Cold Case and How are They Solved?

When people hear the term “cold case,” most think about an old, unsolved murder. While this definition is not incorrect, the idea that the term “cold case” only pertains to a murder is inaccurate. Seasoned investigator Jason Moran will discuss how to define and categorize cold cases, as well as provide key considerations and strategies for investigators handling cold cases to increase solvability.

This webinar is intended for police departments seeking to increase their understanding of cold case investigations and improve cold case investigative outcomes.

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.

FY 2018 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Funding Opportunities for State, Local, and Tribal Agencies and TTA Providers

This webinar will introduce the fiscal year 2018 funding opportunities offered through two solicitations, including a new grant program that provides direct assistance for state, local, and tribal justice agencies and jurisdictions to develop, implement, and test data-driven and evidence-based responses to high-cost drivers of crime and other compelling public safety challenges. The presenters will also discuss the related funding opportunity available to training and technical assistance providers.

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