On Thursday, January 18, 2024, the Department of Justice, through the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), released a report on its critical incident review of the law enforcement response to the tragic school shooting at Robb Elementary School. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced the review shortly after the tragedy on May 24, 2022, in which 19 children and two teachers died at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The report provides a thorough description of the critical incident review that has taken place over the past 20 months.

Funded by the Office for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency and hosted by the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), this webinar discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the landscape of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) investigations. This comprehensive webinar will delve into the profound influence of AI on CSAM, the implications for victimization, and the evolving strategies essential for effective investigations.

Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., ET

As part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Students, Teachers, Officers, and Parents (STOP) School Violence program, the Safer Schools Info Exchange is a new moderated program that has been established for key school safety stakeholders to communicate as a community of practice to exchange information, best practices, model policies, and ideas related to the prevention of school violence and enhancements to school safety. This platform is hosted on Gaggle Mail, and it is open to law enforcement, school safety personnel, school administrators and faculty, school-based direct service providers, researchers, parents, and students with a role in school safety initiatives. Before signing up, please review the Safer Schools Info Exchange Terms of Service and User Guide. This document outlines the Safer Schools Info Exchange terms of use, steps for accessing/interacting within the platform, and responses to frequently asked questions. If you would like to participate in the Safer Schools Info Exchange platform, please provide your contact information using the interest form. Once you are added to the platform, you will receive a welcome message from Safer Schools Info Exchange – Administrator.

Published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), this article discusses how the FBI is postured to defend against foreign interference heading into the 2024 election cycle, despite the growing number of foreign actors and nation-states seeking to disrupt our democratic process. "Americans can and should have confidence in our election system," FBI Director Christopher A. Wray said during a fireside chat with U.S. Army Gen. Paul M. Nakasone—the director of the National Security Agency and commander of U.S. Cyber Command—that was moderated by National Public Radio journalist Mary Louise Kelly.  The FBI hasn’t witnessed any foreign interference effort that has jeopardized "the integrity of the vote count itself in any material way," he added. The conversation was part of the 2024 Fordham International Conference on Cybersecurity, co-hosted by the FBI and Fordham University at the school’s Lincoln Center campus in New York City.

Published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), this report provides national statistics on the federal response to crime for fiscal year 2022 and some statistics on changes over time. The report describes case processing in the federal criminal justice system, including investigations by U.S. attorneys, prosecutions and declinations, convictions and acquittals, sentencing, probation and supervised release, and imprisonment. It is the 36th in an annual series based on data from BJS’s Federal Justice Statistics Program, which began in 1979.