This no-cost webinar, hosted by the Justice Clearinghouse and sponsored by the National Sheriffs’ Association, will apply research-based information in a discussion to promote school safety. The discussion will allow the participants to identify and evaluate components of a school safety plan for schools located in small towns or unincorporated areas.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Evaluate available research when developing a school safety plan.
• Identify low-cost and effective components for rural school safety plans.
• Test assumptions regarding the components of their rural school safety plans.

Date:  October 9, 2019

Time:  1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., ET

The National Public Safety Partnership (PSP) recently released the “Youth Gang Violence Prevention” toolkit, which is housed through PSP’s Public Safety Clearinghouse.  The customizable toolkit includes resources for addressing gang participation, especially among young people, and provides best practices to help state, local, tribal, and territorial agencies prevent gang violence in their jurisdictions.

Recently, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released the updated National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP)—the nation’s road map to ensuring emergency communications interoperability at all levels of government. The NECP was updated to address the current gaps within emergency communications, reflect new and emerging technological advancements, and provide guidance to drive the nation toward a common end state for communications.

Increasingly, law enforcement officers are called on to be the first, and often the only, responders to calls involving people who have mental health needs. To begin tackling that challenge, the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center released the Police-Mental Health Collaboration (PMHC) framework to help law enforcement agencies across the country better respond to the growing number of calls for service they receive involving this population. In this webinar, presenters will discuss the questions that law enforcement executives should consider when developing or enhancing PMHCs in their jurisdictions and share practical approaches that have been implemented in the field.

This no-cost webinar is hosted by the CSG Justice Center with funding support from the Bureau of Justice Assistance.

Date: October 8, 2019

Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., ET

Digital evidence has become an essential part of every legal matter, whether it be a criminal, civil, or internal investigation. Using a case study, this webinar session will demonstrate the methods used to determine that an email submitted as evidence in federal court had been forged. The methods demonstrated in this case study may be reliably referenced when reviewing any questionable digital documents, without the need for specialized software. This presentation will demonstrate the probative value of digital forensics in fraud investigations.

You will learn how to:

• Recognize the value of digital forensics in fraud cases.
• Identify methods to examine digital files and metadata.
• Determine how to make and report on evidence-based conclusions.
• Recall a practical example of how these methods were applied.

This no-cost webinar is hosted by the National White Collar Crime Center.

Date:  October 15, 2019

Time:  1:00 p.m. – 2:00 pm., ET