Professional Development

As the juvenile court system keeps evolving, it’s crucial for law enforcement professionals and other allied professionals to stay up to date with the legal changes regarding juvenile matters. This one-day training session will mainly focus on juvenile procedures, investigations, the roles of School Resource Officers, “Raise the Age” information, and a juvenile law update. Additionally, community organizations will be present to provide law enforcement officers with information about the services they offer to juvenile offenders

This one-day training will focus on the challenges of working with child victims, domestic violence victims, elder victims, and those who fall in between. We will focus on a victim-centered approach and the logistics of getting victims to pre-trial meetings and in the courtroom.

Digital technology, social networking, mobile phone apps, and artificial intelligence are changing the face of the crimes against children. Anonymity has always enabled exploiters to easily find, groom, and exploit young victims for both sexual and financial gain. Now with the increasing use of artificial intelligence, opportunists are utilizing new ways to create and share illegal material. This course will discuss current sexual exploitation statutes in North Carolina, trends in the field, new investigative techniques, and tips for prosecutors navigating this new evidentiary world.

This three-day multidisciplinary course will provide the knowledge and skills necessary for prosecutors to make charging decisions and prosecute homicide cases. Additionally, this course will provide practical exercises in the investigation and prosecution of a homicide and teamwork tips for investigators and victim advocates.

Content Advisory—Please read before registering.

This training will focus on child homicides, including case details, investigation techniques and autopsies. While the content will be presented with professionalism and care, we recognize that some individuals choose not to handle homicides of this nature. We encourage prospective attendees to consider this when deciding whether to attend this year’s M is for Murder and to care for their well-being accordingly.

Court can be intimidating, but not if you are prepared. This two-day trial advocacy course is all about practice for impaired driving cases. After each lecture, we will break out into small groups and practice what we discussed: everything from testifying about SFSTs to breath testing. Students will learn different ways to present evidence so the case comes alive for the trier of fact, leading to successful prosecutions of these difficult cases.

Practice Makes Perfect is full for law enforcement at this time.

Knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education- that’s all it takes to be an expert. In cases involving vulnerable adult victims, our colleagues in the medical field have all these things and so much more. This interactive training will teach participants how to effectively utilize an expert witness in vulnerable adult cases to explain the effects of undue influence and cognitive impairment.