The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) is pleased to announce that it will host “Investigation of Dating Violence, Domestic Violence, and Stalking for Campus Police, Public Safety and Civil Rights (Conduct/Title IX) Investigators”. This three-day intensive training class is designed for campus police/public safety administrators and investigators (sworn, non-sworn, and Title IX/Civil Rights investigators) who have responsibility for conducting and overseeing dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking investigations on their college campuses. Attendees will learn how to fully investigate these “Clery Crimes” as defined by the Department of Education in the 2013 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act in higher education from start to finish with special emphasis on investigating the intersections between these offenses and sexual misconduct/assault and complying with the new VAWA regulations which amended the Clery Act and Title IX regulatory guidance.
This class is appropriate for sworn and non-sworn agencies from private and state institutions of higher education, as most campus public safety agencies are involved in some level of investigation of these types incidents on their respective campuses. The class is also intended to provide civil rights investigators on campus with knowledge on how to investigate these offenses and to bring them to adjudication in the institution’s student conduct process.
The faculty includes high level campus law enforcement administrators and Title IX Coordinators/Conduct Officers who have significant experience in conducting and overseeing sexual misconduct/assault, dating violence, domestic violence and stalking criminal and civil rights investigations on college campuses.
o Understanding the definitions of dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking as defined in the Clery Act, as amended by the 2013 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act;
o Understanding the intersections between sexual misconduct/assault investigations and investigations involving domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.
o Understanding the prevalence and trends of dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking on college campuses in the United States;
o How dating violence, domestic violence and stalking impact survivors, whether students or employees;
o The role of the Internet, social media and other technology in perpetration of dv, dv, sa and stalking cases;
o Working cooperatively with survivors of intimate partner violence or stalking to effectively and efficiently investigate these crimes;
o Working collaboratively with other responders and support resources to include hospital-based victim care;
o Officer safety when responding to domestic violence calls;
o Review of basic domestic and sexual violence dynamics, including issues of power and control;
o Laws of search and seizure;
o Avoiding mutual arrests in cases of domestic violence
o How law enforcement or Public Safety can identify relevant federal and state statutory firearms prohibitions and seizure policies including protection order provisions.
o Making predominant aggressor determinations including, interfacing with and interviewing primary/predominant aggressors;
o How to assist victims in procuring protective orders/stay away orders and best-practice advice on how such orders will be maintained within the Police Department/Department of Public Safety and shared within the institution;
o Men as victims and special considerations for law enforcement/Public Safety agencies;
o Considerations for investigating intimate partner violence and stalking against persons who identify as LGBTQ
o Behavioral-Oriented Interviewing of Victims
o Assessing Dangerousness/Lethality
o Collection of Evidence, including response to cyber-scenes;
o Report Writing
o Suspect patterns, to include Grooming and Stalking
o Suspect Interviews
o Managing Retaliation and the Hostile Academic Environment
o Working with your local prosecutor-Trial Preparation
o Clery Act Considerations-Timely Warning, Immediate Notification
o How to discharge VAWA duties during investigation
o On-campus Judicial Process Considerations
o Title IX Implications in your investigations—Managing Concurrent Investigations
The class is also intended to provide civil rights investigators on campus with knowledge about how to investigate these offenses and to bring them to adjudication in the institution’s student conduct process.
The faculty includes high level campus law enforcement administrators and Title IX Coordinators/Conduct Officers who have significant experience in conducting and overseeing dating violence, domestic violence and stalking criminal and civil rights investigations on college campuses.
The curriculum for this class takes into consideration the amendments to the Clery Act as amended by the 2013 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act and guidance from the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights.
This course is being instructed by D. Stafford and Associates.
This three-day intensive training class is designed for campus police/public safety administrators and investigators (both sworn and non- sworn) who have responsibility for conducting and overseeing sex crime investigations on their college campuses, campus victim advocates, and student conduct staff.
*Please note, this class is only available for participants from Virginia Colleges and Universities.
Partial In-service Credit for law enforcement and campus security officers is available.
There is no fee to attend this course. All training materials will be provided.
Participants are responsible for their transportation, meals, and lodging arrangements and related expenses.
Registration begins at 7:30 a.m.
Training begins at 8:00 a.m. and concludes at 5:00 p.m. on the first two days.
Training begins at 8:00 a.m. and concludes at 3:00 p.m. on the last day.
Pre-registration is required.
Please note that the DCJS registration system does not have the capacity to sort eligible from ineligible registrants. Therefore, anyone who registers will receive a confirmation. It is the responsibility of the DCJS assigned course director to review the roster and make a final determination on acceptance into the course. Registrants not accepted will be notified via the email address provided during registration.