The Law Enforcement Cyber Center (LECC) website has undergone a complete redesign. This online resource promotes the awareness, expands the knowledge base, and builds the capacity of justice and public safety agencies charged with preventing, investigating, prosecuting, and responding to cyberthreats and cybercrimes.

The redesigned website incorporates new content and a user-friendly interface. Some of the updates include the following:

• Search functionality that enables officers, chiefs, and prosecutors to identify online training, classroom training, and conferences that have a nexus to cybercrime.
• Additional resources such as investigative tools, law enforcement databases, mobile resources, cyber bulletins, and more.
• A “What’s New” section that allows users to keep up to date on the latest emerging cybercrime trends.
• A larger banner that quickly provides information about upcoming training, conferences, and new products.

Under the direction of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) works in close collaboration with the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) to manage and support the LECC.  

No child should have to worry about their safety when in school. The Department’s top priority is to keep the American people safe, and we are closely examining ways to better protect our nation’s students and schools from gun violence.

~Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

In the wake of the recent attack in Parkland, Florida, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is stepping up actions to better protect our nation’s schools against gun violence as well as other potential threats. DHS conducts training, exercises, and preparedness activities year-round to increase the security of schools across the country and the communities in which they are located. To help coordinate the department’s wide range of activities, DHS has established a departmentwide Executive Steering Committee that will drive DHS school security efforts, in support of state and local efforts, and ensure that the resources and expertise of DHS are best leveraged to protect our nation’s schools against attack. The article outlines DHS’s actions on school security related to (1) education and community awareness; (2) capacity building, training, and exercises; and (3) early warning.

[FirstNet is] going to change the dynamic of how we communicate, what we see, and just really make us more effective as incident commanders.

~Chief Charles Werner, Charlottesville Fire Chief Emeritus, Virginia

The Annual Report outlines the major steps taken to deliver on the promise of an interoperable, wireless broadband network to help first responders save lives and protect communities across the country. Recognizing that there is much work to be done, this report outlines the accomplishment of three significant FirstNet goals:  the awarding of the FirstNet contract; the delivery of state plans for the radio access network (RAN) and subsequent opt-ins for all 50 states, five U.S. territories, and Washington, DC; and significant steps toward network operations and innovation for public safety.

Overall opioid overdose deaths increased by more than 27 percent from 2015 to 2016, indicating that the opioid crisis in many states is not slowing down, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

On March 6, 2018, the CDC released the report Vital Signs: Trends in Emergency Department Visits for Suspected Opioid Overdoses—United States, July 2016–September 2017, which shows that overdose rates increased across the country and across all demographic groups. The report looked at emergency department and hospital billing data from 52 jurisdictions in 45 states.

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) leadership, in collaboration with the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program (COAP) team, invites you to a no-cost webinar on March 28, 2018, at 1:00 p.m., ET, to learn how cross-system collaboration and data sharing are addressing opioid misuse in the state of Ohio by supporting the implementation of a pre-criminal intervention program (PCIP).

As part of Ohio’s strategy to reduce prescription drug misuse and abuse, the Ohio Board of Pharmacy plans to use data from the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System (OARRS) to identify those who may be engaged in patterns of behavior indicative of substance misuse or abuse and who may be in violation of Ohio’s doctor-shopping law.