The rapidly growing availability of digital evidence is helping law enforcement solve more crimes, but it is also creating a complex need to understand how to properly secure digital evidence, maintain the chain of custody, and ensuring nothing is being missed during analysis. Learn more at this year’s 2019 Tech Conference where the new Digital Evidence track will feature best practices on making the most out of your digital evidence, how to wade through vast amounts of evidence, procedures for proper analysis of video files, and capturing social media evidence for an investigation.

Learn more about this new programing below.

Understanding the Value of Digital Evidence: A Real-World Case Study and Available Resources. This workshop will provide information on strategies and promising practices to help law enforcement agencies better use vital digital evidence, and to prepare for the future. Presenters will demonstrate how digital evidence can be used in conjunction with traditional techniques to identify and prosecute multiple suspects in large-scale investigations.

Tackling the Digital Evidence Tsunami Through Public-Private Partnerships. The value of digital evidence is becoming increasingly important to investigations, but the complexity and volume of such digital evidence and the cost of managing it is a growing area of concern for police leaders. This workshop will present strategies to better leverage partnerships, people, and technology to tackle this challenge in a cost-effective manner.

Balancing Data Security with Access to Video Evidence. This presentation explores questions designed to provoke investigators to think outside the box, opening the door to proven and secure methods to fully leverage the value of digital video evidence throughout every division and command in their network.

Investigations Impacted by Social Media - How to Make More of Digital Evidence. Social Media applications are a potential source of information that can help an investigator make progress on a case. This presentation will highlight examples of provider returns and some of the tools and techniques used through case studies of successful investigations.

These workshop sessions and more will be presented at the 2019 IACP Technology Conference in Jacksonville, Florida, May 20-22. Register now so you don’t miss out on these great workshops.