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Records Management Courses
Managing Police Records
In this class you will learn records management principles and legal requirements, including determining how long records must be kept, when they should be destroyed, records formats and storage mediums, imaging records, and developing a records management program for your agency. You will also learn a modernized approach to managing agency files both electronically and those which are still on paper.
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Intro to Law Enforcement Records Management
New to Records? In this informative course, you will learn records management procedures in law enforcement, including retention, review, and disposition of paper and electronic records. This training is specifically designed to orient you to basic procedures and best practices and can be attended by personnel from any state.
Going Paperless: Why and How
Legacy approaches for managing records and the prevalence of manual, paper-driven business processes are indications of a real need for digital transformation… modernizing how you create, share, store, and access information and how you provide service to both employees and external stakeholders.
CAD/RMS Procurement and Project Management
Your technology project’s success or failure will have a lasting impact on your agency and career. Make sure it goes right by attending this high-impact learning and networking event, and leave with the tools you need to fast-track getting the right system. This executive-level course is a money-back guaranteed program that will lower the risk of project failure and help ensure a successful procurement process.
Eliminating Risk and Liability in Records -
Attendees will participate in strategic risk analysis and prevention and learn how to implement the approaches needed to protect the agency. You’ll receive various resources/tools for the agency- and self-assessment risk analysis, measuring key performance indicators, and keeping track of productivity.
Public Records and Compliance Courses
Intro to Sealing and Expunging Records
In this 2-hour state-specific course, learn what the law says about sealing and expunging records and best practices for processing these court orders. Topics Include:
- Overview of state law
- Processing court orders
- Understanding the difference between a sealed and expunged record
- Who has access to these records
Criminal Law vs. NIBRS: Accurate Coding of Offense Reports
The difference between criminal law definitions and NIBRS offense definitions requires understanding the importance of reconciling state statutes/codes and NIBRS offenses to ensure accurate classification of crimes. Assuming your RMS automatically assigns the correct code for every offense will lead to inaccurate crime data. Learn how state criminal laws are counted for NIBRS purposes and how they should be coded. This training includes practical scenarios commonly found in offense reports.
Florida Sunshine Law for Law Enforcement
A one-day course covering the application of Florida Chapter 119 to law enforcement records. This seminar focuses on public records held specifically by law enforcement agencies and understanding what should or should not be released to the public according to Florida law and corresponding legal opinions.
California Public Records Act
A one-day in-depth course covering the California Public Records Act and how to respond to subpoenas. Taught by California's resident expert, Joseph Surges, learn the ins and outs of public records requests from a practitioner's perspective.
Releasing and Redacting Law Enforcement Records
Learn how to identify and redact information from police reports, audio, video, juvenile, traffic records, personnel records, and internal affairs records following state law. You will also learn which exemptions may apply beyond the closure of a case, and your state’s requirements for managing requests for records including time requirements, acceptable request methods, fees, and best practices for protecting the interests of both the requester and your agency. This class includes the latest legislative changes/updates.
Crime Reporting and NIBRS Courses
Crime Stats and NIBRS for the Police Executive
NIBRS is here, so learn all about it in this one-day, extraordinarily informative course about your crime stats. This course is for those who need to understand the changes, how the numbers work, how to keep them accurate, and how they will change.
Writing Reports NIBRS Style
Whether you are transitioning to NIBRS or already there, this practical and informative course will help your officers, FTO's, supervisors, and records personnel better understand crime reporting. In addition to learning about NIBRS and crime reporting under this program, personnel will understand their respective roles in the report writing, reviewing, and coding process.
Transitioning To NIBRS
This presentation will include a 4-step guide to ensuring your agency successfully transitions to NIBRS. There’s a lot more involved than just updating your system.
Hate Crimes: Reporting NIBRS Bias-Based Offenses
This presentation will include guidance in the recognition, proper documentation, and reporting of bias-based offenses to NIBRS. Reporting issues and discrepancies rest on the shoulders of law enforcement agencies, which share local data with the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
Case Management: Status and Disposition of Cases
Learn what case management is and how it affects your NIBRS data, clearance rates, record retention periods, and the procedures needed to keep case status and dispositions correct throughout an investigation and prosecution.
Report Writing 102: What the Academy Doesn't Teach
Every report must contain the information needed to correctly document a crime, aid detectives in follow-up investigations, ensure a conviction, and lessen the burden on reviewing supervisors and records personnel.
Reviewing and Approving Reports: Who should do it and how
Learn how to bring clarity, consistency, and buy-in to the importance of rejecting and correcting errors through a two-tiered review process that ensures transparency, prevents risk in court testimony and resolves the challenge of getting everyone on the same page. Learn how to review reports, correct errors, and document changes to reports the right way.
LEOKA and Cargo Theft: Specialized NIBRS
With cargo theft on the rise each year, proper reporting is critical. This training is intended to assist law enforcement agencies in reporting incidents of cargo theft to the NIBRS program. It addresses the types of offenses that constitute a Cargo Theft incident, how to identify cargo theft, and guidelines for reporting cargo theft.
Leadership, Staffing, and Management Courses
Leadership in Police Records
Building a successful records unit begins with leadership. The PRI Leadership in Records course is a one-day program designed to enhance leadership awareness and competencies. The course focuses on the mindset and skills required to successfully lead and work as part of a records team.
You will learn how to contribute to the motivation of staff and develop effective teams to meet your agency’s objectives. Learn about the different personality types, how to better manage conflict, increase communication, and help others embrace change more effectively.
Staffing Analysis- Calculating How Many Personnel You Need in Records
Learn how to correctly calculate how many personnel are needed in your Records Unit. Using a detailed staffing model based on quantity and time measurements of work tasks, this data-driven approach reveals true staffing needs.
On-Site Training Events
Southeast Regional (FL, AL, GA) Event: March 8
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