Sexting Investigations & Consequences

Certification

This course is certified by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board.

Description

This course will examine recent trends among teens involving “Sexting” and how law enforcement can effectively deal with juveniles who manufacture and distribute inappropriate material. Participants will learn how to train parents through an educational website and give juveniles consequences through restorative justice education in lieu of adjudication.

The class will learn how to develop a safety plan for dealing with offenders and how to educate parents on the tools available for monitoring their children. Instruction will cover cell phone evidence and recovery, computer evidence and recovery, email attachments, social networks, and current laws governing the possession, manufacturing, and distribution of child pornography, obscenity, and harmful material. Proposed legislation for protecting children will also be examined.

Topics

• Why and how teens manufacture and distribute their own child pornography
• Current laws and how they affect children who commit these crimes
• Using the NCMEC Child Victim Identification Program (CVIP)
• Software tools for parental monitoring
• Juvenile and adult sex offender registration
• Proposed legislation for protecting children
• Recovering evidence from electronic devices
• Email attachments; cloud services; social networking
• Obtaining background information on the parties involved
• Free online education for establishing consequences
• Using restorative justice through diversion and education

Instructor

Deadline

Please register for this course by August 30.