Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the National White-Collar Crime Center (NW3C) has announced a new certification, the Certified Cyber Crime Intelligence Analyst (3CIA), coming on September 18.  Users who take this certification will analyze products and processes across the intelligence cycle and assess the capabilities, intentions, and activities—technical and otherwise—of potential threats in the cyber domain.
 
1.  Open-source intelligence
2.  Intelligence cycle
3.  Cybersecurity, cyber crime mitigation, and cyber hygiene
4.  Investigation of cyber crime and Internet-facilitated crimes
5.  Common cyber crimes and Internet-facilitated crimes
6.  Legislative, legal, and regulatory framework

In honor of National Crime and Intelligence Analyst Appreciation Day, NWC3 is waiving the $50 application fee* from September 18 to September 24, 2022, using Code INTEL50.

The Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) have released a new training module on privately made firearms, commonly known as ghost guns, as part of the National Public Safety Partnership (PSP) Virtual Academy.  Working collaboratively, ATF and BJA developed the PSP Virtual Academy Ghost Guns course to provide law enforcement with a readily accessible, on-demand, and no-cost way to gain insight into what constitutes privately made firearms and how they may be manufactured.  The course also presents recommendations regarding evidence collection.

Published by the Bureau of Justice Assistance in partnership with The Council of State Governments Justice Center, this new resource addresses growing concerns about accuracy, fairness, transparency, and communication in the use of risk and needs assessment. Risk and needs assessment results are not used enough to inform case decisions and management. Criminal justice agencies have not been given the guidance they need to communicate the strengths and limitations of risk and needs assessment.  Furthermore, people who are being assessed rarely receive information about these assessments, how they work, and what they will be used to determine.  These guidelines were developed under the advisement of a national group of researchers, risk and needs assessment instrument developers, practitioners, and leaders in the field.  They prioritize accuracy, fairness, and transparency in the communication and use of risk and needs assessment.

Hosted by the National Center for School Safety, this event will feature researchers and practitioners sharing lessons learned from evaluating lockdown drills.  The panel will answer questions and share best practices for conducting trauma-informed lockdown drills and discuss how they fit into a comprehensive school safety approach.  This webinar is a companion to and continuation of the previously released self-paced training on lockdown drills.

Learning objectives:
•    Debate the merit of lockdown drills.
•    Discuss the need for a standardized set of guidelines for lockdown drills.
•    Explain methods for making drills trauma-informed.
•    Discuss how lockdown drills fit in with other school violence prevention strategies.

When: Thursday, September 12, 2022
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., ET

Published by the National Institute of Justice, this brief discusses evidence for detecting, preventing, and responding to school shootings through NIJ-sponsored research.  Preventing mass shootings in the United States, particularly those occurring in school settings, is an important priority for families, government leaders and officials, public safety agencies, mental health professionals, educators, and local communities.  The brief provides potential solutions for preventing these shootings as well as additional NIJ reports related to school shootings.