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SEARCH News November 2008 Former SEARCH Member and Current Kentucky Lawmaker Joins SEARCH Staff
SEARCH is pleased to announce that Ms. Alecia Webb-Edgington has been hired as a Public Safety Technology Specialist, effective November 3, 2008. More »

October 2008 SEARCH Takes Advanced Responders Course to Florida
SEARCH Computer Crime Training Specialists presented the Advanced Responders: Search and Seizure of Networks course to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in Jacksonville, Florida, October 14-17. More »

New Staff Joins SEARCH S&T Team
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, is pleased to announce that Mr. Mo West will join the Systems and Technology Program team as a Justice Information Systems Specialist on November 1, 2008. More »

Sedgwick Confirmed Assistant Attorney General
Jeffrey L. Sedgwick was confirmed by the United States Senate on Thursday, October 2, 2008, as Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Justice Programs. More »

PSC/ICAC National Conference Draws Big Crowd
More than 1,400 investigators attended the Project Safe Childhood (PSC) and Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) National Conference on September 23-26, 2008, in Columbus, Ohio, the largest attendance for the conference to date. More »

September 2008 Longtime SEARCH Staff George Buck Dies
George Buck, who served as SEARCH's Deputy Executive Director for Administration and Finance prior to his retirement in 2003, died September 28, 2008, of complications related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. More »

SEARCH and Maine State Police Develop Justice Service-Oriented Architecture
The Maine State Police (MSP), on behalf of the state's criminal justice partners, has recently released version 1.0 of the Maine Justice Information Sharing Architecture (MJISA), which the SEARCH Systems and Technology team developed for MSP under contract. More »

SEARCH Staff Offers Specialized Training at PSC/ICAC National Conference
SEARCH High-Tech Crime Training Services staff is providing specialized investigative training at the Project Safe Childhood (PSC) and Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) National Conference on September 23-26, 2008, in Columbus, Ohio. More »

New "Investigating Social Networking Sites" Course Receives Great Reviews
The SEARCH high-tech crime training course, Social Networking Sites: Investigative Tools and Techniques, received high praise from attendees during its rollout on September 9 and 11, held in SEARCH's training facility in Sacramento. More »

SEARCH Participates in Cyber and Electronic Crime Policy Forum
SEARCH staff joins other justice and public safety presenters at the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices' Executive Policy Forum on Cyber and Electronic Crime in Arlington, Virginia on September 8 and 9, 2008. More »

SEARCH Wireless Class Moves out of the Classroom in Crime Scene Simulation
SEARCH training staff offers something unique in their Advanced Responders: Search and Seizure of Networks course. More »

August 2008 JIEM 4.1 Now Available
SEARCH is pleased to announce the release of version 4.1 of JIEM, the Justice Information Exchange Model, on August 27, 2008. More »

SEARCH Announces New Director to Lead its high-tech crime Training Program
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, is pleased to announce that we have hired Mr. Richard A. Harris, Jr., as Director of our high-tech crime Training Services team. More »

SEARCH Recognizes Recipients of 2008 Awards
During its 2008 Annual Meeting in July in Cleveland, Ohio, the full SEARCH Membership gathered to recognize the 2008 recipients of SEARCH's top honors. More »

New Finance Department Staff Joins SEARCH
Ms. Anne E. Stites is SEARCH's new Bookkeeper. More »

SEARCH Board of Directors Elections Held Recently
The SEARCH Board of Directors roster changed slightly following a Board election held July 25, 2008, in Cleveland, Ohio. More »

SEARCH Welcomes New Massachusetts Member
SEARCH is pleased to announce that Mr. Curtis M. Wood, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Criminal History Systems Board (CHSB), Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, is Massachusetts' new representative on the SEARCH Membership Group. More »

July 2008 SEARCH Welcomes New Alabama Member
SEARCH is pleased to announce that Lieutenant William D. Eller, Commander of the Alabama Fusion Center, Bureau of Investigation, Alabama Department of Public Safety (DPS), is Alabama's new representative on the SEARCH Membership Group. More »

July Release of Latest JIEM Version
The next version of JIEM, the Justice Information Exchange Model, is scheduled for release in July. More »

June 2008 SEARCH Welcomes New Iowa Member
SEARCH is pleased to announce that Mr. James J. Saunders, Assistant Director, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), Iowa Department of Public Safety (DPS), is Iowa's new representative on the SEARCH Membership Group. More »

New Finance Department Staff Joins SEARCH
Ms. Leticia Davidek is SEARCH's new Staff Accountant, having joined our organization on June 16, 2008. More »

May 2008 SEARCH Welcomes New Training Services Staff
Mr. Christopher S. Armstrong joined SEARCH May 12 as a Computer Crime Training Specialist in the High-Tech Crime Training Services department of SEARCH. More »

Next Steps for COML Project Underway: SEARCH Helps Develop Training Curricula
SEARCH is continuing its involvement in the Communications Unit Leader (COML) training within the National Incident Management System (NIMS). More »

April 2008 First Phase of Cherry Hill (NJ) Police Department Technical Assistance Complete
SEARCH and representatives from the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) have recently completed phase one of a technical assistance (TA) project for the Cherry Hill (New Jersey) Police Department (CHPD). More »

SEARCH Releases Cellular Device Data Recovery Guide
In recent years, cellular handheld devices like phones and personal digital assistants have become an integral part of crimes such as terrorist attacks, rapes, assaults, drug-growing operations, child exploitation, and many others. More »

March 2008 Financial Fraud Investigators Attend SEARCH High-Tech Crime Presentation
Forty-two attendees from the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators (IAFCI) attended a March 27 presentation at SEARCH that included search techniques using Google, the Mozilla FireFox Web Browser, and SEARCH Investigative Toolbar to optimize investigations. More »

SEARCH Welcomes New California Member
SEARCH is pleased to announce that Gary K. Cooper, Director, California Justice Information Services Division, California Department of Justice was appointed to the SEARCH Membership on March 5, 2008. More »

February 2008 SEARCH Welcomes New Washington Member
SEARCH is pleased to announce that David J. Karnitz, Assistant Chief, Technical Services Bureau, Washington State Patrol, was appointed to the SEARCH Membership on February 7, 2008. More »

January 2008 SEARCH Welcomes New Members
SEARCH is pleased to announce two new appointments to the SEARCH Membership Group. More »

SEARCH Strengthens JIEM Methodology with Latest Tool Release
SEARCH released version 4.0 of the Justice Information Exchange Model (JIEM) Tool in September 2007. More »

Sedgwick to be Acting Assistant Attorney General
President George W. Bush has designated Jeffrey L. Sedgwick to be Acting Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs (OJP), in the U.S. Department of Justice. More »