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Lethal and Nonlethal Uses of Force

Hear about the critical issues, practical techniques, and solutions to managing the complications surrounding use of force.

Agencies and their officers are constantly exposed to risk - not only personal risk, but risk from civil litigation and the loss of public confidence when officers act inappropriately...

Make Strategic Decisions with Performance-Based Budgets in the Government Sector

Understand why performance-based budgeting will help allocate tax dollars into programs with the highest priority.Budgeting in a government organization can be a painful and time-consuming process. Budgeting by incrementally increasing or reducing line-items is inefficient at best and myopic at worst....

Making Stone Soup: Building Healthy Small Businesses Without Breaking Your Staff or Your Budget

Learn cost effective methods used across the country to support and enable small business and employment growth.

Government officials and leaders are facing intense pressure to grow local jobs and local businesses, but conventional recruitment and incentive strategies take too much money and too much...

Mobile Device Forensics

Mobile devices are everywhere. Cisco® systems, the networking giant, has postulated that the number of internet connected mobile devices will surpass the world population by the end of 2013. All of these devices contain information about the individual and their activities. Much of this information...

Motor Vehicle Searches

For 30 years, lawyers and police officers operated under the bright line rule of New York v. Belton. Vehicle searches incident to the arrest of a vehicle occupant were routine. In 2009, everything about post-arrest vehicle searches changed. Arizona v. Gant was a landmark decision that reveals much about...

Municipal Debt: Methods for Restructuring

Gain an understanding of in depth issues surrounding common types of restructuring including current and advance refundings.Many participants in the municipal marketplace are not aware of all the tools that are available to them to restructure municipal debt, whether in stable or distressed financial...

New York's Election and Government Ethics Laws: New Reforms and Enforcement Policies

Avoid costly penalties resulting from noncompliance. Stay abreast of the recent changes to election and ethics laws in New York.

Earlier this year, as part of the New York state budget negotiations, the legislature and governor enacted a series of changes to the New York State Election Law and certain...

Optimize Your Parking Assets to Boost Revenue

Learn how to run an effective parking system in your community that considers revenue and customer service tradeoffs.An improperly run parking system, perhaps more than any other public asset, has a very real impact on the life of citizens and the success, or not, of a business district. Many public...

Practical Planning Strategies for Major Events

Learn effective methods for designing, developing and implementing the three layers needed for event planning. This topic will focus on the three levels of planning for major events. When planning major events, you have to consider a broad base of risks; from natural disasters, technology disasters,...

Preservation and Quality Assurance of Vital Records

Learn the proper protection process to ensure that your vital records are preserved during a time of disaster.Organizations have back up plans for a multitude of systems, practices, etc., but all the planning will not save an organization from a disaster if they haven't thought of their information...