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January 12, 2024
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New Initiative
Four Agencies Selected to Participate in the Resident Corrections Analyst Initiative
The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center have announced the selection of four corrections agencies to receive an embedded data analyst through the BJA-supported Resident Corrections Analyst (RCA) initiative. The purpose of RCA is to place data analysts in residence at state departments of corrections (DOCs) to help those agencies develop their data capacity and increase the utility of data for decision-making, while also building the corrections analyst workforce.
NW3C Course
Basic Cyber Investigations: Digital Footprints
Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and hosted by the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), this course introduces learners to the concept of digital footprints and best practices in protecting personally identifiable information (PII). Topics include limiting an individual's digital footprint, protecting privacy on social media, and the consequences of oversharing personal information, along with steps to take after becoming a target of doxing.
Key concepts covered in this course include:
- Current landscape
- Personally identifiable information (PII)
- Minimizing your digital footprint
- Social media
- Resources
Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., ET
Webinar
Hot-Spots Policing as Part of a Citywide Violent Crime Reduction Strategy— Evidence From Four American Cities
Hosted by the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing and the Justice Clearinghouse, this webinar discusses the success of hot-spots policing in four American cities over the past few years. During this webinar, the researchers will discuss:
- Results from Years 1 and 2 in Dallas, Texas, and Year 1 in Tacoma, Washington; Salt Lake City, Utah; and San Antonio, Texas.
- Hot spots—based on narrowly focused, deterrent methods in the cities’ most vulnerable areas.
- Problem-oriented policing involving a police-led, multidisciplinary group of city government stakeholders who work together to address the underlying causes of crime in persistently violent places.
- Lessons drawn from partnerships between researchers and agencies of varying sizes, each with its own set of unique challenges surrounding violent crime.
When: Thursday, February 15, 2024
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m., ET
Webinar
Understanding and Responding to Family-Facilitated Human Trafficking
Funded by the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) as part of the OVC-funded Enhanced Collaborative Model Human Trafficking Task Force Training Catalog and hosted by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, this webinar will discuss what familial trafficking looks like and how multidisciplinary human trafficking task force members can better identify and respond to this type of trafficking. Familial trafficking occurs when a family member (a father or mother, sibling, grandparent, uncle, or aunt) or a guardian (a foster parent or intimate partner of the parent) facilitates the trafficking. This webinar will discuss why this type of trafficking is difficult to identify, how familial trafficking differs from other types of human trafficking, opportunities for identification and response, and ways to increase collaboration among systems such as child welfare, education, and health care.
When: Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., ET
NIST Article
NIST Identifies Types of Cyberattacks That Manipulate Behavior of AI Systems
Developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), this article identifies vulnerabilities in AI and machine learning (ML). The publication, a collaboration among government, academia, and industry, is intended to help AI developers and users get a handle on the types of attacks they might expect along with approaches to mitigate them—with the understanding that there is no silver bullet.
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