The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security, has published online trainings titled “Responding to First Amendment-Protected Events—The Role of State and Local Law Enforcement Officers.”   This website provides training videos to assist law enforcement personnel in understanding their roles and responsibilities as they prepare for and respond to First Amendment-protected events; protecting the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties of persons and groups participating in these events; and reinforcing fundamental concepts learned at law enforcement training academies and during in-service programs.  Two training options are available.  The first, “Your Role in Protecting Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties,” is an 8:15-minute video that provides users with a certificate of completion.  The second, “First Amendment—The Role of Law Enforcement,” is a 3:31-minute line-officer roll-call video, designed for use during roll call and pre-event briefings, featuring an introductory overview of law enforcement’s roles and responsibilities at a First Amendment-protected event.  

Hosted by The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center and funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, this webinar will introduce the first set of Justice Counts metrics. Criminal justice policymakers are often forced to make crucial decisions using limited or outdated criminal justice data.  Accurate, accessible, and actionable data is essential to building stronger and safer communities.  That’s why Justice Counts is empowering data-driven decision making today and planning for better criminal justice data tomorrow.  The metrics were developed by more than 100 people, agencies, and entities who poured hundreds of hours into balancing a complex range of issues to reach a consensus on an essential set of metrics.  Now that the metrics have been developed, we need to start putting them to work.  We invite criminal justice practitioners from across the United States to join us in creating a stronger information infrastructure for the justice system by learning how to mobilize these metrics in their own states.

When:  Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., ET

Published by the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, this report details the attacks by Russia-based ransomware group REvil on three American companies and the experiences of those companies during the incident response.  The goal of this report is to provide information that companies and agencies can use to prepare for and respond to ransomware attacks. 

Published by the U.S. Department of State, this report documents the status of human rights and worker rights in 198 countries and territories around the world.  The reports paint a clear picture showing where human rights and democracy are under threat.  They highlight where governments have unjustly jailed, tortured, or even killed political opponents, activists, human rights defenders, or journalists, including in Russia, the People’s Republic of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Nicaragua, and Syria. 

Hosted by the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Justice National Indian Country Training Initiative, this summit is intended for federal, state, and tribal law enforcement, prosecutors, advocates, court staff members, victim/witness services staff members, and tribal leaders.

The summit features four training tracks:
•    Criminal Justice Personnel
•    Records Collection and Data Sharing
•    Tribal Courts and Corrections
•    Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons

The summit will be taught by nationally recognized subject-matter experts.  The Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney General of the United States have been invited to participate.  Priority will be given to those individuals working in Indian Country.

When: Monday, June 6, 2022
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m., ET