prosecutors

This year, AEquitas released a guide for preventing and responding to violent crime by enhancing prosecutors’ ability to build safer communities through increased collaboration with community leaders. As key members of the criminal justice system, prosecutors can play an important role in uniting community leaders to create and implement policies, practices, and initiatives for sustainability and the reduction of violence.

This session is part of the “2020 Summer Summit Virtual Learning Series.” This series highlights six of the topics from the original agenda regarding professional development and victim advocacy needed to address the “Challenge of Change.”

This session will highlight procedural justice and trust-building for prosecutors.

Speakers:

Emily LaGratta, Principal, LaGratta Consulting,

John Belton, District Attorney, Lincoln and Union Parishes (LA),

Kirsten Pabst, District Attorney, Missoula County (MT),

Dave Sunday, District Attorney, York County (PA).

In the past two months, prosecutors' offices and court systems across the nation have seen their daily work to maintain constitutional justice uprooted, altered, and halted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, in response to George Floyd’s death, the criminal justice system also began facing calls for expanded police accountability. The role of the prosecutor is changing rapidly and the steps that prosecutors take in the upcoming months could impact the justice system for years to come.

Join CNA and the National District Attorneys Association for their upcoming  webinar on June 16, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. ET. Attendees will learn about three offices’ experiences throughout COVID-19 and the challenges that prosecutors will face in future months.

The “Capital Litigation Improvement Project Series: Mass Shootings and Victim Considerations” webinar is now available on the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s YouTube page. During this webinar, District Attorney General George Brauchler—who prosecuted James Holmes, the Aurora, Colorado gunman—outlines the issues district attorneys face while prosecuting mass shooting cases. He also shares lessons learned from his experiences prosecuting similar cases.

Join the International Association of Chiefs of Police and AEquitas for their no-cost training “Effective Strategies to Investigate and Prosecute Labor Trafficking in the United States” being held April 1–3, 2020 in Solvang, California.

Join the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services and the Institute of Intergovernmental Research for their webinar “Partnerships to Address Labor Trafficking: How to Build a Multidisciplinary Team” on February 20, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. ET.

The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) and the Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR) invite you to their webinar “Partnerships to Address Labor Trafficking: How to Build a Multidisciplinary Team.”

Investigators will benefit from learning about practices and innovative strategies for investigating and addressing labor trafficking cases. Establishing trusted multidisciplinary relationships can lead to significant progress in identifying, apprehending, and convicting labor traffickers while safeguarding the lives of victims and their families.

Join the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (APA) for their webinar “Mass Shootings and Victim Considerations” on December 4 from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. ET. This webinar will focus on a topical and complex subject that is likely at the forefront of many prosecutors’ minds.

“Mass Shootings and Victim Considerations” focuses on a topical and complex subject that is likely at the forefront of many prosecutors’ minds. In this presentation, District Attorney George Brauchler, widely known as the prosecutor of James Holmes, the Aurora, Colorado gunman, will home in on the issues district attorneys face while prosecuting mass shootings cases. He will provide anecdotal insights and lessons learned along the way.