Law Enforcement Information Management (LEIM) Section
Past Conferences

32^nd Annual LEIM Conference, Nashville, TN May 6-10, 2008

The following presentations were made during the 32^nd Annual LEIM Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, May 6-10, 2008. Additional presentations will be posted as they are received. The full conference agenda is available for download.

Presentations

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Plenary - Securing Convictions with Digital Evidence (Available to sworn law enforcement upon request)

• D. Miles Brissette, Assistant Criminal District Attorney, Tarrant County (TX) Criminal District Attorney's Office

ABC's of IT Technology Tutorial

• Doug Davis, Chief, Waynesboro (VA) Police Department

"Catch Me If You Can": Collection and Use of Digital Evidence in Identity Theft Cases

• Esther Farmer, Sergeant, Economic Crimes Unit, Miami (FL) Police Department
• Erann Kalwara, Product Manager, Justice Data Group
• Bill Childers, Lead Developer, Justice Data Group

Enhancing Situational Awareness: The Good, the Bad, and Technology

• Dale Stockton, Project Manager, Automated Regional Justice Information System
• Bill Maheu, Executive Assistant Police Chief, San Diego (CA) Police Department
• Ed Posey, Executive Lieutenant, Gainesville (FL) Police Department
• Chuck Georgo, Executive Director, NOWHERETOHIDE.ORG

NPSTC - A Key Partner in Strategic Planning

• Marilyn Ward, Executive Director, National Public Safety Telecommunications Council
• Stu Overby, Vice-Chair, Spectrum Management Committee, National Public Safety Telecommunications Council
• Chief Harlin McEwen (ret.), Chairman, IACP Communications & Technology Committee, International Association of Chiefs of Police

Projects for Dummies - Needs Assessment, Project Management and Midcourse Corrections

• Dan Hawkins, Director, Public Safety Programs, SEARCH: The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics
• Lloyd Lowry, Information Services Director, (OR) Public Safety Academy

Information Sharing: From Paperless Operations to State/Regional/National Connectivity

• Julian Allen, Ph.D., Associate Vice President for Research and Economic Development, Executive Director, Mississippi Automated System Project, the University of Southern Mississippi
• Chris Alley, MBA, Director, Systems and Software Development, MASP, University of Southern Mississippi
• Officer Jeffrey Gottstein, Canine Officer, Woodbury (MN) Police Department
• Jeffrey Beahen, Chief of Police, Elk River (MN) Police Department
• Robert Hernz, General Manager (Retired Chief of Police), Law Enforcement Technology Group, LLC
• Cindy Richey, Information Technology Manager, Colorado State Police

Smart Surveillance for Public Safety and Homeland Security that Puts Chicago First

• James Argiropoulos, First Deputy Chicago OEMC, City of Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications
• Raymond Cooke, Principal Architect, IBM Global Service

Perpetuating Information Sharing Success: User Reported Successes Guide and Development

• Jim Slater, Chief Information Officer/Secretariat Information Officer, (MA) Executive Office of Public Safety and Security
• Greg Phoenix, Vice President, xFact Incorporated
• Ernest D. Scott Jr. PhD, Executive Director, Center for Law Enforcement Technology, Training, & Research
• James McClure, Master Deputy Sheriff, Orange County (FL) Sheriff’s Office
• K. Michael Reynolds, PhD., Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Central Florida, Dept. of Criminal Justice/Legal Studies

Law Enforcement Uses of Automatic License Plate Recognition Technology

• Tim McFadden, Project Manager, Office of Law Enforcement Technology Commercialization
• Jim Arnold, Captain, Georgetown (SC) Police Department
• Dennis Bodine, Chief Agent, Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center
• Dale Stockton, Project Manager ARJIS

Building a Domestic Law Enforcement Rad/Nuc Detection Capability

• SSA Sean P. Clark, Acting Deputy Assistant Director, Operations Support, FBI, detailed to DHS Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
• Jeff Radgowski, Deputy Program Manager, DHS Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
• Mary Pedersen, Chief Information Officer, Kentucky Office of Homeland Security (Available to sworn law enforcement upon request)
• Steven Streetman, Systems Architect Support Specialist, DHS Domestic Nuclear Detection Office

Law Enforcement and the Internet: Overcoming Challenges and Realizing Opportunities

• Tammy Holt, Senior Operations Researcher, OJJDP
• John Markovic, Program Manager, International Association of Chiefs of Police
• Tim Bennett, President, Cyber Security Industry Alliance
• Allen Shoaff, Project Manager, International Association of Chiefs of Police

Dealing with a Crime Scene during a Major Event: How Government and Industry Respond

• G. Thomas Steele, Chief Information and Technology Officer (DE) Department of Safety and Homeland Security
• James T. Overton, Chief of Police, Delaware State University

Beyond Video: Two Case Studies for Medium and Large Agencies

• Ralph L. Godbee, Jr., Assistant Chief, Detroit (MI) Police Department
• Russell G. DeCrease, Commander, Detroit (MI) Police Department
• Miles Cowan, Chief Technology Officer, Insight Video
• Ray Cooke, Chief Architect - Public Safety, IBM Global Technology Services
• Tony Robillard, Enterprise Solutions Consultant, GTSI
• James Short, Corporal, Waynesboro (VA) Police Department

Making Business Secure in an Increasingly Digital World: The Global Security Architecture

• James Dyche, Information Systems Manager, Pennsylvania Justice Network

National DMV Image Sharing Initiatives

• Brad Truitt, Information Systems Director, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
• Pete Fagan, Lieutenant, Assistant Division Commander CJIS Division, (VA) State Police and Nlets
• Bonnie Locke, Director of Program Management, Nlets
• Nanda Kumar, Information Systems Division, Taxation & Revenue Department, State of New Mexico
• Cathy Plummer, Project Manager, Nlets

Mobile Data Sharing between Agencies for Interoperability and High Performance

• Joseph Vaughn, Technology Manager, Automated Regional Justice Information System (ARJIS)
• Steve Shephard, Corporal, National City (UT) Police Department
• Greg Lundell, Sergeant, Technology Section, Utah Highway Patrol, Utah Department of Public Safety
• Mike Phillips, Technical Coordinator, Project Manager, Florida Department of Law Enforcement

Leveraging Standards for RFP and RFI Development and Using Existing RMS and CAD Systems to Provide Cross Jurisdictional Data

• Scott Edson, Captain Los Angeles County (CA) Sheriff's Department
• Liz Pearson, Vice President, Operations, URL Integration
• Steven DiNoto, Chief Administrative Officer, Crime Analysis Unit, San Jose, (CA) Police Department
• Laurence Ryan, Lieutenant, San Jose (CA) Police Department
• Greg Whisenant, President and CEO, Public Engines

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Friday, May 9, 2008

Federal Partners Engaging State and Local in Technology and Funding Efforts

• Moderator: Eddie Reyes, Captain, Alexandria (VA) Police Department
• David Hagy, Director, National Institutes of Justice
• Ross Ashley, Assistant Administrator, Grant Programs Directorate (GPD), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• David Boyd, Director, Command, Control and Interoperability, Science & Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• Paul Garrett, Special Assistant to the CIO, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
• David Lewis, Senior Policy Advisor, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)

NIEM: In Action: Roadmap to Successful Standards-based Information Sharing

• Mike Phillips, Project Manager, Florida Law Enforcement Exchange (FLEX), Florida Department of Law Enforcement
• Rehan Chawdry, National Security Practice Leader, Sypherlink
• Aaron Gorrell, President and CEO Waterhole Software
• Paul Wormeli, Executive Director, IJIS Institute
• Jim Pingel, Committee Support Manager, NIEM Business Architecture Committee (NBAC), NIEM Program Management Office

Transportation and Public Safety: Two Technology Initiatives to Increase your Productivity and Safety

• Linda Dodge, Public Safety Program Manager, USDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS JPO)
• Laurie Flaherty, Program Analyst, National 9-1-1 Office, USDOT/NHTSA
• Pete Eggimann, ENP, Director of 9-1-1 Services, Metropolitan Emergency Services Board
• Joe Balles, Lieutenant/Central District Patrol Commander, Madison (WI) Police Department
• Stephen Barger, Industry Consultant, Intergraph Corporation

Targeting Gun Crime with Technology: How Law Enforcement Agencies are Utilizing Gunshot Location Technology and ETrace to Reduce Gun Violence

• Mike Reff, Program Manager, National Tracing Center, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF)
• Melvin L. Blizzard Jr., Executive Director, Intelligence Fusion Division, Homeland Security Bureau for Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department
• Gregg Rowland, Senior Vice President, ShotSpotter, Inc.

How to Tame the LIONS – Law Enforcement Inter-Operability Notifications System

• Steven Noyes, Application Architect, State of Nevada Department of Public Safety, Records & Technology Division
• Bill Walker, Sergeant, Johnson County (KS) Sheriff's Office
• Carter Wetherington, Mobile Systems Administrator, Johnson County (KS) Sheriff's Office

Collaboration Is Key: Lessons Learned, Practical Tips

• Houston Thomas, Public Safety Business Development Manager, CDW Government, Inc. (CDW-G)
• Anthony S. Pike, Major, Assistant Director of Law Enforcement, (VA) Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
• Don Wick, Chief of Police, Arvada (CO) Police Department
• Ira Cohen, Police Systems Manager, Information Technology, Police Systems Division, City of Arvada (CO)

Automated Enforcement: RFP Process, Pitfalls and Selection Criteria

• Tom Didone, Captain, Montgomery County (MD) Police Department
• Rick Larson, Senior Solution Sales Specialist, LaserCraft Inc

Leveraging Commercial Networks to Meet Future Needs of Public Safety

• Tim Petsky, Associate Director, Product Development, Verizon Wireless
• David Lukeson, Senior Product Manager, Systems, EF Johnson
• Doug Clark, Director, Mobile Application Consulting for AT&T

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National Institute of Justice In Process Review

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

The National Institute of Justice's Science and Technology Program and Homeland Security

• William Ford, Acting Chief Information and Sensor technologies Division, Office of Science and Technologies, NIJ

Information Quality Research

• Valerie Sessions, Ph.D., Charleston Southern University/SPAWAR, Charleston

Tactical Identification System (TACIDS)

• Joseph Vaughn, Technical Manager, ARJIS

ARJIS Officer Notification and Smart Alerting System (ONASAS)

• Katie Mugg, Grant Manager, ARJIS
• Dale Stockton, Project Manager, ARJIS

NLETS Live Operational Geospatial Information Capability (LOGIC)

• Jenny Hansen LOGIC Project Manager, NLETS

Orangetown (NY) Multiband Radio Pilot

• Rick Mulvihill, Deputy Director, NLECTC-Communications Technologies Center of Excellence

Evaluating IEEE 802.16 Broadband Wireless as a Communications Infrastructure for Public Safety Activities

• Jim Martin, Assistant Professor, School of Computing, Clemson University
• Mike Westall, Professor, School of Computing, Clemson University

Project 54 Introduction & 2008 Update

• Bill Lenharth, Director, Research Computing Center, University of New Hampshire

Communications Technology: TrakPoint

• John Taylor, Mercury Data Systems

NIJ FY07 Communications Technology 3D Locator System for Law Enforcement

• Frank Morese, President and CEO, Sedona Strategies, LLC, Training Coordinator, North Carolina Justice Academy

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LEIM Past Conferences

2nd Annual IACP LEIM International Conference
The IACP LEIM Section held its second international conference in Nassau, Bahamas from November 28-30, 2007. Presentations from this conference can be viewed here.

Previous LEIM Conference Presentations
Presentations delivered at past LEIM Annual Conferences or from the IACP Annual Conference Technology Tracks can be viewed here.