Description

The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services, in conjunction with Safer Schools Together, is pleased to announce this virtual training opportunity to help behavioral threat assessment team members better recognize and respond to today’s challenges from worrisome digital content contained on varied social media platforms.  

Digital Threat Assessment® (DTA) teaches participants to establish a Digital Behavioral Baseline through a School Safety/Threat Assessment lens. By engaging with popular social media applications, participants will learn how to find and document worrisome digital content originating from the school community. This training solidifies the participant's understanding of how to effectively use DTA as a critical part of any modern-day Threat Assessment. Participants will learn how to find individuals who are the subject of threat assessment and document research findings. 

Topics

Application of Digital Threat Assessment® theoretical foundations

• How the fundamental principles of Behavioral Threat Assessment apply to online digital data

• Best practices for documenting and preserving crucial digital data

• How to search within Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat

How to utilize the power of search engines and all investigative tools

• Engage the power of Google and use Boolean search operator

• How to configure Google Alerts for ongoing research

• The role of cached data in online research work

Online verification and authentication of images

• Online tools to determine whether a photo/image is likely unique or stock

• How to screen capture and document online content for both evidentiary and school safety purposes

• How to work with social media companies and utilize law enforcement guides to request user identifying information

Privacy

• The difference between personal, professional, and research accounts

• Consider privacy and policy implications of online research account use

• Protect and safeguard your personal information online

• Recognize the wealth of information that tech giants maintain about users (Google, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc.)

The current state of affairs in social media: A safe school perspective

• What we see from a local, national, and North American lens

• How social media continues to impact the safety, culture, and climate of our schools

• How to establish a digital behavioral baseline and assess the language of online threats

• How to crowdsource localized and time relevant social media posts from your school and geographical area

• How to recognize the signs and implications of general vs. inordinate knowledge, including information on INCELs, doxing, swatting and the dark web

Who should attend?

This training is being offered to behavioral threat assessment team members at the school or division level. This includes School Resource Officers, Law Enforcement Officers and School Security Officers who currently serve on threat assessment teams.

Partial In-Service Credit

Law enforcement and school/campus security officers will receive partial in-service credit hours for this training.

Training Details

• The training will be hosted via Zoom

• Participants will receive the Zoom meeting link prior to the training

Cost and Registration

There is no fee to attend this training. 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 who are not approved will be notified via the email address provided during registration.