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Revitalize Blighted Properties With Land Banks

Drive stabilization, revitalization and economic growth in your community with best practices for land bank programs.Land banks are proven tools to remove blighted structures and acquire problem properties in post-industrial legacy cities and neighborhoods across the U.S. The process of land banking...

Social Media and Law Enforcement: Applications and Liabilities

Law enforcement agencies throughout the United States are beginning to embrace the power of social media for managing the department's public image, engaging the pubic in a more effective partnership to prevent crime, and as a tool for solving crimes. It is essential that law enforcement executives,...

Social Media for Government Agencies: How to Successfully Connect With Your Community

Understand how to utilize social media to connect with your community and increase responsiveness and community involvement.It's more important than ever for government agencies to have a robust social media presence that can create and strengthen real connections with their communities. However, these...

The Fundamentals of the Buy American Act

Understand when the Buy American Act applies and whether a product is Buy American Act compliant.The federal government is the largest single purchaser of goods and services in the world. When the government is purchasing goods and services, the Buy American Act requires the government to purchase domestic...

Utilizing Social Media in Investigations

Investigators today face the almost insurmountable task of identifying usable information from the plethora of social media sites. Facebook® alone has over 800 million users and Twitter® users send 175 million tweets each day. Sifting through the social media data presented online can ultimately be...

Voyage to Discovery: Using Interview and Witness Behavioral Analysis

Attorneys, investigators, experts, and members of law enforcement meet with people to obtain information to assist in determinations of proximate cause, criminal responsibility, perceptions, recollections and damages. Self-interest and defensiveness provide challenges to information gathering. If the...

Where Have You Gone, Miranda? Trends, Predictions, and Best Practices

Completely understanding Miranda rights will help in interpreting warnings and protections, ensuring a fair litigation process.

Law enforcement officers, government officials, and attorneys alike must understand the privilege against compelled self-incrimination as interpreted by Miranda v. Arizona,...

Workplace Harassment in Government Agencies

Learn to develop policies to minimize the potential liabilities from harassment claims, establish an effective complaint procedure, and provide appropriate training.The MeToo movement began in the entertainment industry, but it has also affected those in government. Although it is the resignations of...