Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and hosted by National Reentry Resource Center, this webinar will be a panel format and will focus on effective reentry strategies in tribal communities, share a multitude of effective resources, and highlight guidance from the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Planning a Reentry Program: A Toolkit for Tribal Communities, released in October 2021.  The discussion will also focus on the importance of tribal-state partnerships in reducing incarceration and recidivism.

When:  Monday, April 18, 2022
Time:  3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m., ET

Hosted by the Justice Clearinghouse and funded by the International Association of Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA), this webinar will cover techniques in conducting social media intelligence (SOCMINT) and its role with other intelligence types.  It will highlight various social media and communications platforms as well as concepts, tools, and techniques to conduct advanced social media research and analysis and preservation techniques.  Participants will learn about social media data gathering, digital forensics, and data extraction techniques covering subjects of interest, including public databases, forums, geolocations, and events/gatherings of interest to law enforcement.

When: Thursday, April 21, 2022
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., ET

Hosted by the National Gang Center and funded by the National Institute of Justice and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, this webinar will feature researchers from the Urban Institute study to present the practice guidance from the project, as well as some of the key findings from the research synthesis and environmental scan on which that guidance is based.  Practitioner panelists will speak to how this guidance relates to the work they are doing in their communities, including the need for interventions to be individualized by the specific places, problems, and cultural contexts in which they are implemented. As a result of this webinar, participants will be able to: 

• Summarize practice guidance on reducing youth gun violence associated with gangs or groups and the basis on which that guidance was developed
• Recognize how the practice guidance is relevant to the different stakeholder groups that work to address violence (e.g., local government, law enforcement, community-based organizations, funders, researchers)

When: Thursday, April 28, 2022
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., ET

Hosted by the Justice Clearinghouse, this webinar is an introduction to ransomware for law enforcement and will describe the ransomware ecosystem and current trends.  With ransomware becoming a larger problem and affecting all levels of the government and business, law enforcement agencies need to understand how ransomware actors operate and develop strategies to take action against these groups.

When: Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., ET

Hosted by the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, this webinar will help you learn the essential techniques for processing large data sets for your financial investigation cases. The highlights of this training session include how to:   

• Capture hand-printed and computer font data from various document types, such as bank statements, check images, deposit slips, withdrawal slips, forms, and more. 
• Automate document collation, data enrichment, and data verification to build a successful work plan strategy for your case.
• Create an audit trail that instantly allows you to verify and substantiate the data with the source document.
• Integrate multiple data sets, including bank statements, check images, and deposit slips, to produce a comprehensive Excel spreadsheet.

When:  Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Where: 9:00 a.m. – 10:40 a.m., ET