GOVQUEST 2.0 UNLEASHED

PRI Unveils GovQuest 2.0: Revolutionizing Public Records Management for Government Agencies Nationwide

CORAL GABLES, FL – PRI, the most trusted name in government records management services, has launched GovQuest 2.0, the ultimate solution to automate and streamline public records requests. Designed to replace inefficient manual processes with a fully web-based system, GovQuest 2.0 empowers government agencies to efficiently manage requests from receipt to release—no setup, no hassle. 

Celebrate the Launch of GovQuest 2.0 with Our Exclusive Special Offer!

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No Subscription Fees for the First Year! 🙌

Does your agency qualify? Schedule a consultation or demo today to see if you qualify for this unbeatable offer. 

Don't miss this chance to optimize your team's efficiency without the initial cost. Act now and transform your agency with GovQuest 2.0! 🏆

Streamline Staff Training with our Fixed-Price Package!

Elevate your team's skills with our all-in-one training solution! With our fixed-price training package, you can send staff to training sessions throughout the year, hassle-free.

Use for ANY classes within 12 months - This is the best value PRI offers.

Special ONSITE Training Events

>> Washington - Ferndale (two day)

Law Enforcement Records Training

Two Day Event | June 2 & 3, 2025

>> Washington - Ferndale (one day)

Law Enforcement Records Training

One Day Event | June 2 or 3, 2025 (choose one)

>> Southeast - Largo, FL

Building a Records Training Program

Two Day Event | June 24 & 25, 2025

>> New Mexico - Portales

State Records Management Symposium

Two Day Event | June 30 & July 1, 2025

>> Florida - Doral

Public Records Law

One Day Event | July 9, 2025

>> Florida - Crestview

NIBRS Training Event

One Day Event | July 15, 2025

>> Colorado - Lakewood

State Records Management Symposium

Two Day Event | July 24 & 25, 2025

>> Florida - Fernandina Beach

Public Records Law

One Day Event | August 1, 2025

>> Texas - Georgetown

State Records Management Symposium

Two Day Event | August 25 & 26, 2025

>> Illinois - Elgin

State Records Management Symposium

Two Day Event | September 18 & 19, 2025

Nominate YOUR Records Professional of The Quarter

PRI wants to shine a spotlight on outstanding Records Professionals - nominate yours now, because excellence is worth celebrating!

• Winner receives an Amazon gift card.

• The winning professional will also win a catered lunch for their entire records department.

UPCOMING CONFERENCES WE ARE ATTENDING

COME BY AND SAY “HELLO”

UPCOMING PRI CLASSES

New CJIS Course

CJIS SECPOL in Plain English

6.0 has just been released, are you ready?

Stay ahead in criminal justice information security with our "CJIS SECPOL in Plain English" class. Perfect for those handling CJIS compliance, policy development, and agency security, this course breaks down the latest updates (version 6.0) into easily digestible content for all, regardless of IT background.

DATES:



• 07/08/2025: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST
• 09/10/2025: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST

New Leadership Trilogy Series

You will receive a PRI challenge coin and trilogy certificate for completing the Leadership series.

>> First-Level Leadership in Police Records (formerly Leadership in Police Records)

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

>> Middle Management Leadership

This course equips aspiring and current middle managers in civilian divisions with the skills needed to effectively bridge executive goals and daily operations, focusing on leadership strategies, performance monitoring, and interpersonal dynamics within a paramilitary setting.

>> Executive Leadership

This course is designed to strengthen the strategic leadership skills of executive leaders, senior managers, and command-level civilian staff, focusing on developing individual, team, and organizational competencies for effective communication, negotiation, and influencing team dynamics. 

BEST DEAL!

>> The Leadership Bundle

Take your leadership skills to the next level by purchasing our complete Leadership Trilogy series. Instead of paying $279 per course, you can get access to all three for only $649. This bundle gives you the tools and insights to master leadership across multiple levels and challenges. Learn More >>

Inventory & Purge Course

>> Conducting a Records Inventory and Purge

Many organizations retain too many records for too long. Learn procedures for conducting a records inventory and purge, including best practices and defensible disposition for both paper and electronic records.

Includes tips for getting buy-in from staff and developing a standardized annual destruction process.

• 06/18/2025: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST
• 07/24/2025: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST
• 08/28/2025: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST

Property/Evidence Courses

>> Digital Evidence Management

In this class you will learn best practices for the creation, collection, management, and destruction of digital evidence. Learn about the importance of case management and disposition in the retention of digital evidence, including auditing and mitigating against lost files. Understand the relationship between evidence and records, and how something can be both.

• 06/05/2025: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST
• 07/22/2025: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST
• 09/17/2025: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST

>> Property and Evidence Management

In this class you will learn about effective management of property and evidence operations, items, and systems. To help ensure compliance, and lower risk and liability, law enforcement agencies must recognize the high-liability nature of this function, and the importance of having consistent personnel, oversight, and program policy.

You will learn about best practices for inventories, auditing, and guidelines for destroying property and evidence, and the requirement for this unit, and your records unit, to closely collaborate and reconcile records and property on an ongoing basis.

• 05/28/2025: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM PST
• 07/02/2025: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM EST
• 08/27/2025: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM PST

>> Supervising a Property and Evidence Unit

Property rooms are often ignored or tucked away into a dark corner with little to no supervision. Staff are sometimes assigned to oversee the operation with minimal training in property/evidence operations, risks, and compliance. Then the surprise comes when an issue arises, such as missing evidence or evidence destroyed too soon.

• 06/12/2025: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST
• 08/20/2025: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST

Records Management Courses

>> Managing Police Records

(Click to Find Your State)

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.

>> 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.

• 06/18/2025: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM PST
• 07/17/2025: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM EST
• 09/02/2025: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM PST

>> 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.

• 05/15/2025: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST
• 08/19/2025: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST

>> 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.

• 06/17/2025: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST
• 09/23/2025: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM PST

>> 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.

• 06/26/2025: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM PST
• 07/15/2025: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM EST
• 09/11/2025: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM PST

>> Intro to Sealing and Expunging Records (Click to Find Your State)

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

Public Records & Compliance Courses

>> Criminal Law vs. NIBRS: Accurate Coding of Offense Report

(Click to Find Your State)

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

>> Florida Public Records Law for Public Safety (Previously Florida Sunshine Law)

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.

• 05/22/2025: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM EST
• 09/25/2025: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM EST

>> 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.

• 05/29/2025: 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM PST
• 08/27/2025: 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM PST

>> Releasing Law Enforcement Records Pursuant to CORA and the CCJRA

While the Colorado Open Records Act governs most government records, it does not extend to criminal justice records, which are governed under the Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act. Sometimes navigating two different laws can be tricky. This training will help agency personnel come to a better understanding of how these two acts work together to protect law enforcement investigative information while still allowing the public to be informed. 

• 07/31/2025: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM MST

>> Releasing and Redacting Law Enforcement Records

(Click To Find Your State)

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 & 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.

• 07/15/2025: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM EST

>> 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. 

• 05/20/2025: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM EST
• 09/23/2025: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM PST

>> 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. 

• 09/09/2025: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

>> 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.

• 05/07/2025: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST
• 08/05/2025: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST

>> Case Management

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.

• 05/14/2025: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
• 08/21/2025: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST

>> 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.

• 06/11/2025: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM PST
• 09/04/2025: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM EST

>> 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.

• 05/27/2025: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM PST
• 09/09/2025: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM EST

>> 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.

• 09/18/2025: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST