The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has released its Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community for 2023.  This annual report focuses on the worldwide threats to U.S. national security for the upcoming year and specifically “provides the Intelligence Community’s (IC’s) baseline assessments of the most pressing threats to U.S. national interests.  The report details the objectives, activities, and capabilities of four adversarial nations: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. In addition, it examines conflicts and instability taking place across the globe that may be of concern to the United States (Afghanistan, India-Pakistan, India-China, Near East, East Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa).  The report discusses climate change and environmental degradation, health security, and additional transnational issues such as the global economic consequences of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Hosted by the National White Collar Crime Center and funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, this webinar will cover how to obtain and interpret Google data, including Google location data, and how to forensically map Google location data using automated mapping tools. Proper location analysis will be discussed to help identify frequent locations of an offender, travel locations, and other signification locations to obtain additional evidence. Real case examples will be discussed on how to identify and analyze the offender’s Google account and location data.

When: Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., ET

The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR) at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy recently released the “Common Problems, Common Solutions:  Looking Across Sectors at Strategies for Supporting Rural Youth and Families Toolkit.”  The toolkit provides an overview of barriers that rural communities face in preventing youth involvement in the juvenile justice system.  It also provides examples of innovative practices serving justice-involved youth and their families in rural communities that can be adapted by other juvenile justice practitioners.

The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) is pleased to release a set of audiobooks from the Child Victims and Witnesses Support Materials series for young survivors of human trafficking. Originally released as graphic novels in January 2022, these three audiobooks were created by national experts and young trafficking survivors—who also served as the voice actors—to support youth who are victims or witnesses in cases of human trafficking.

As part of the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, the Bureau of Justice Assistance is working with The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center to launch a new initiative to place data analysts in residence at state departments of corrections (DOCs).  The analysts will help those agencies develop their data analysis capacity and increase the utility of data for decision-making while also building the corrections analyst workforce.  This opportunity is available to up to six DOCs for a period of three months to a year, depending on the goals and complexity of each DOC’s project.