“Sexting”
A Proactive Law Enforcement Response

Hours: 8
Tuition: $150

Program Information:

With ever changing technology all too often teens have placed themselves into situations that have resulted in negative life time consequences. “Sexting” is a new technology driven trend that has law enforcement unsure on how to deal with our kids who are manufacturing their own child pornography and distributing it.  This 8 - hour program will examine the Why? How? When? Where? And What NEXT?   Program participants will learn about the need to educate our children on the dangers and effects of “Sexting“ in addition to providing law enforcement with proactive measures that will reduce victimization. As a class, we will form a safety plan for law enforcement to deal effectively with the teens that are committing these crimes and give parents the tools to successfully monitor their children.  Through the use of SLEA’s Digital Lab students will perform exercises that will facilitate them in understanding “Sexting” while learning how to investigate these offenses.  

Topics Include:

• Examining laws of Possession, Manufacturing and Distributing Child Pornography
• Sex Offender and “Sexting” Laws
• Investigating “Sexting”
• Examination of monitoring software (MMWD)
• Juvenile Court Act
• NCMEC Child Victim Identification Program (CVIP)
• Types of consequences
• National Center of Missing and Exploited Children

Instructor:

Rich Wistocki is a veteran detective of the Naperville, Illinois Police Department.  Rich is a nationally profiled police detective who actively works computer crimes/sexual predator investigations and regularly educates the public on internet safety.  Detective Wistocki is the author of HB 4583 which pertains to juveniles who commit Sexting offenses.  These new laws are designed to keep our children from being arrested for the manufacture of child pornography and becoming sex offenders.  Besides many of his career achievements he currently is the law enforcement liaison to MySpace and one of the founding members of the Illinois Attorney Generals Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force which was formed in 1998.


**Cancellations for this class must be received by SLEA 35 days prior to the start of the program in order to avoid being billed!**

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