Mickey Osterreicher and Mike Parker are a unique team presenting an informative and lively program about the rights and limitations of journalists and citizens to photograph and record police officers performing their official duties in public. The discussion will include First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights, search and seizure, exigent circumstances, qualified immunity, media-crowd management, and prohibitions against the destructio...

Our organizations need great leaders for so many reasons. We all understand the concept of formal leaders, those who have titles and who supervise others. But we also need leaders who don’t have those titles. Those informal leaders who mentor and coach others and do the job while displaying exemplary leadership characteristics along the way. This webinar is for those informal leaders who want to lead from where they are at. Understand ho...

Ancient warrior cultures have utilized specific mindfulness practices to obtain superior tactical resilience. These techniques, adopted and applied to modern policing, will enhance peak field performance during critical incidents. These are essential skills for field performance, as well as providing the ability to recovery and build sustainable resilience to keep you at the top of your game. In this class you will learn the following techniqu...

This webinar will provide a detailed breakdown of several cases of the integration of social skills instruction into daily interactions of justice professionals with their clients and colleagues. After a brief review of recommended approaches to helping people learn how to successfully navigate the social expectations of the criminal justice environment, the webinar will model several cases of doing so. The cases will present all levels of the...

Leaders in the criminal justice field need to be emotionally intelligent, now more than ever. Being a leader who understands and relates to people from various backgrounds and all walks of life is a skill set desired by many. The reasons for this include that they motivate and inspire others, they increase morale in their organizations, and they foster an environment promoting trust and legitimacy. This webinar will examine and demonstrate the...

From natural disasters to criminal incidents, public safety situations often involve multiple agencies. Silo statements shared during a crisis can result in mixed messaging. In this presentation, Police PIO Kate Kimble and School District Communication Director Madeline Noblett will talk about methods of preventing communication collisions, share examples of effective integration strategies, discuss ways to strengthen regional relationships, a...

The Fourth Amendment arises constantly in criminal cases. Whether it is a search warrant, a traffic stop, or an arrest, all litigants should be familiar with the requirements set out by the Constitution. This presentation will cover the overall structure of the requirements by the Fourth Amendment and the basic case law. It will then go over Terry Stops and the standard set out by the United States Supreme Court. This presentation will give vi...

Today’s public information officer (PIO) has to juggle providing timely, accurate information to the public while protecting the integrity of sensitive investigative information in the face of crisis. The Public & Governmental Affairs Office for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the criminal investigative agency for the state, is no different. The summer of 2020 proved to be their busiest and most challenging yet: In May 2020, a c...

Communities across the nation are developing and adopting a variety of alternative crisis response models, including co-responder, community-led response, multi-disciplinary response teams, among numerous other iterations. For far too long the debate has been if these responses should be either law enforcement based or civilian only teams. However, communities that adopt a civilian-only response team must also incorporate additional strategies...

This presentation will explain OSINT and its role with other intelligence types and will cover techniques in conducting open-source research and preserving findings within the open web. Topics discussed include optimizing devices and internet browser for Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), creating a custom Search Engine alert, manual and software-aided and hybrid approaches, using The Onion Router (TOR), GitHub and data collection and analysis...