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Law Enforcement-Mental Health Collaboration Support Center

Supported by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Law Enforcement-Mental Health Collaboration Support Center offers free training, resources, and support to communities wanting to improve their law enforcement and community responses to people with behavioral health conditions or intellectual and developmental disabilities who encounter law enforcement.

The Role of Information Sharing in Counter-Terrorism Investigation and Prevention

November 2010
Series
Information Sharing Initiatives
The Role of Information Sharing in Counter-Terrorism Investigation and Prevention is part of a series of podcasts produced by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance which are designed to bring users the latest information in justice innovations, practices, and perspectives from the field of criminal justice. In this particular podcast, we hear from Richard A. Marquise, Director of the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Program and former FBI agent, about his experience with counter-terrorism prevention and investigation.
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The Role of Information Sharing in Counter-Terrorism Investigation and Prevention
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The Role of Information Sharing in Counter-Terrorism Investigation and Prevention

SEARCH Podcast #5: The Global Federated Identity and Privilege Management (GFIPM) Initiative

January 2010
Series
Information Sharing Initiatives
Justice organizations are looking for ways to provide secured access to multiple agency information systems with a single logon. The GFIPM initiative provides the justice community with a security and information sharing architecture that is based on an electronic justice credential. This standards-based justice credential can be used to securely connect law enforcement and public safety personnel to interagency applications and data over the Internet. (Courtesy of SEARCH Group, Inc., www.search.org/programs/info/podcasts) Participants: John Ruegg - Chair, Global Security Working Group (GSWG), Director, Los Angeles County (California) Information Systems Advisory Board (ISAB) James Dyche - Applications Administrator, Pennsylvania Justice Network (JNET)
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SEARCH Podcast #5: The Global Federated Identity and Privilege Management (GFIPM) Initiative
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SEARCH Podcast #5: The Global Federated Identity and Privilege Management (GFIPM) Initiative

Participate in Webinar on Law Enforcement's Role in Response to Drug Endangered Children

Register to participate in The Youngest Victims of the Opioid Epidemic: Law Enforcement’s Role in the Response, a webinar offered through the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program that is taking place October 22, 2020, at 2 p.m. ET.

This webinar will address drug endangered children (DEC) and associated risk factors, the impact of the opioid crisis on DEC and their families, and ways law enforcement...

Special Agent William Sentner, III (Posthumously) (U.S. Department of Justice, Miami, FL)

On Wednesday, June 21, 2006, Special Agent William Sentner of the Miami, FL, Field Office, Investigations Division, Office of Inspector General (OIG) was working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in an investigation involving corrupt prison guards in a federal prison facility in Tallahassee, Florida. As a result of the investigation, six prison guards were indicted for sexually abusing female inmates, smuggling contraband into...

DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR) Program

With this program, BJA assists states and units of local government with existing crime laboratories to increase the capacity of public forensic DNA and DNA database laboratories to process more DNA samples for the FBI's Combined DNA Index System.

Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System Program

This program helps address the extreme shortage of board-certified forensic pathologists in the United States and provides medical examiner and coroner offices with the resources to become accredited and maintain that accreditation.

Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA

This program assists law enforcement and prosecutors to address and prosecute violent crime cold cases and decrease the number of violent crime cold cases awaiting prosecution.

New Research on Body-Worn Cameras

May 2015
Series
Body-Worn Camera Videos

This video captures the presentations of several speakers. Jennifer Wood, Associate Professor at Temple University, presents key findings from a pilot evaluation of the Philadelphia Police Department's use of body-worn cameras (BWC) in one of the districts. During his presentation, Michael White, Professor at Arizona State University, focuses on available BWC resources and research. And, Daniel Lawrence from the Urban Institute spoke about the Institute's evaluation of BWC.

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