Elevate Blue is a virtual training suite designed to address contemporary issues law enforcement faces today. In collaboration with six partner agencies, Elevate Blue virtual training modules deliver best-in-class training rooted in an evidence-based design process and delivered using adult-learning principles.

Jane Anderson, Senior Attorney Advisor with AEquitas, facilitated a conversation with David Weiss, the Chief of the Human Trafficking Unit at Kings County (Brooklyn, New York) District Attorney’s Office. Jane and David discussed how broadening human trafficking investigations can enhance prosecutions, decrease reliance on victim participation, and ensure support to victims is trauma-informed.

Jane Anderson, Senior Attorney Advisor with AEquitas, facilitated a conversation with Miiko Anderson, AEquitas’ newest Attorney Advisor and a former Fresno County (CA) prosecutor with extensive experience prosecuting human trafficking cases. Jane and Miiko discussed various strategies that can enhance prosecutions where judges may not have experience with cases involving sex or labor trafficking and where jurors may have misconceptions or misunderstandings about the reality of what human trafficking looks like in their community.

Writing it Right: Documenting Human Trafficking focuses on establishing the elements of human trafficking while protecting victim privacy and ensuring that reports and press releases accurately describe the dynamics of human trafficking. This online training will demonstrate how to better articulate the realities of human trafficking when communicating with the media and the public, as well as how to ethically protect victim and witness safety in the public record.

The “Maximizing Justice: Building a Prosecution Review Process” is a resource developed to support prosecutors and allied professionals in identifying the most effective route to pursue prosecution of human traffickers. This webinar will discuss how task forces can use the tool together to more effectively conduct investigations, make charging decisions, support victims, and ultimately proceed to trial.

A webinar providing strategies for minimizing opportunities for intimidation and maximizing offender accountability when victims of human trafficking are intimidated or missing. Specifically, the webinar discusses protective orders, courthouse safety measures, and strategies for bringing the voice of survivors into the courtroom through the doctrine of forfeiture by wrongdoing and other rules of evidence.  To learn more about IACP’s anti-human trafficking resources, go to the https://www.theiacp.org/projects/anti-human-trafficking-training-and-technical-assistance.

A webinar discussing interview techniques as well as approaches to effectively address fears and barriers that impact a victim of human trafficking's ability to participate in the criminal justice process. The webinar also addresses how introducing evidence of trauma at trial can help maximize offender accountability. To learn more about IACP’s anti-human trafficking resources, go to the https://www.theiacp.org/projects/anti-human-trafficking-training-and-technical-assistance​.

A webinar describing the dynamics and issues that commonly arise in human trafficking cases about which expert testimony can assist the fact finder. To learn more about IACP’s anti-human trafficking resources, go to the https://www.theiacp.org/projects/anti-human-trafficking-training-and-technical-assistance​.

$230 value - now $100 for members and $125 for non-members! During these extraordinarily challenging times, the ability of police leaders, elected officials, and communities to prepare for, respond to, and successfully manage demonstrations and protests is more critical than ever. As always, the IACP stands ready to ensure its members have the tools and resources needed to address the challenges they are facing. View this package to see the wide array of virtual education available to members and non-members that address crowd management and civil demonstrations.

This conference workshop presentation provides a legal review of the 2019 - 2020 Supreme Court calendar relating to cases effecting law enforcement and a look ahead to the 2020 - 2021 term.