Field Search Forensics: Managing Sex Offenders
A Live System Computer Investigation Tool
Running in Windows or Mac OS X

This course offers the updated application version of FieldSearch

About the Seminar:

Field Search is designed to allow non-technically trained investigating and supervising officers to quickly and easily examine live Windows or Mac systems. This two day class will be presented by Jim Tanner, Ph.D., GSLC of KBSolutions, Inc.; a nationally recognized leader in training officers for field forensics of offenders’ computers. The class will provide training in the use of Field Search for both First Responder/Investigation agencies and Probation/Parole. Participants will receive fully functional copies of Field Search 3.0 and Field Search-Mac for use within their agencies.

Field Search training and distribution is limited to three recipients; Sworn Staff only (like Image Scan and SPADA), the United States Military, and National Governmental Security Agencies (like DHS, CBSA or MI5). Attendees at the training should be sworn staff, active duty members of Military Investigative or Combat Deployed Units for the U.S. or approved allies, or Agents of state or federal governmental agencies tasked with law enforcement or national security responsibilities.

DATE: May 1-2, 2008 (2 Full Days)

TIME: 8:30 - 16:30

Cost:

$95.00 Per Officer

About the Instructors:

Jim Tanner, Ph.D., GSLC, President, KBSolutions Inc.

Dr. Tanner has 35 years of experience in applied community corrections. He is a nationally recognized authority on managing sex offenders’ computer use. Dr. Tanner is the author of Quick Skills, a comprehensive modular cognitive-behavioral treatment curriculum in use in the United States and Australia, and the developer of the Structured Sex Offender Treatment Review (SSOTR), a tool allowing professionals to monitor the progress of sex offenders in treatment. The SSOTR is in use in a variety of jurisdictions within the United States.

Dr. Tanner led an intelligence analysis team affiliated with the National Security Agency in Berlin, Germany during the 1960s. He is advanced trained in numerous computer forensics packages and specializes in sex offender management. He has examined more than 1,200 sex offenders’ computers in recent years. He developed and teaches courses offered by the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center and the American Probation and Parole Association to more than 400 probation and parole officers annually. He is one of a small group of individuals worldwide who have earned the Global Information Assurance Certification in Security Leadership. He holds the GIAC-GSLC certification # 0097.

Dr. Tanner has presented hundreds of seminars and workshops for professionals. His clients include High Technology Crime Investigation Association, Center for Sex Offender Management, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Probation and Parole, Irish Penal Reform Trust, Correctional Services of Victoria Australia and Australian Capital Territory, Colorado Supreme Court, Probation & Parole Departments in 22 states, Colorado Division of Criminal Justice, Colorado Department of Institutions, Colorado Department of Corrections, Colorado District Attorneys Association, Kansas Department of Social Services, Mental Health Organizations in a number of states, American Red Cross, Child Welfare League of America, U.S. Post Office, and a wide variety of private organizations.

Jim Persinger, CEO, PM Investigations, Inc.

Mr. Persinger is a Georgia Licensed Private Investigator and a former Cobb County Police Officer. While a Police Officer, he trained over 300 police recruits. He carries an Instructor’s License through the Secretary of State of Georgia and teaches Computer Forensics, Cyber Crime, and Internet programming techniques at three Georgia colleges. He recently joined American InterContinental University of Dunwoody where he serves as a technical consultant to faculty in developing course content.

Mr. Persinger has provided computer forensic assistance to the F.B.I., the Secret Service, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, local law enforcement agencies in Georgia, North Carolina and Florida, and major corporations throughout the U.S. He has investigated over 275 civil and criminal cyber crime cases in the past five years. He has actively worked with law enforcement on several child exploitation cases that resulted from these investigations.

He was previously employed by Interface Electronics as Vice President of Research and Development. In 1990, he founded JB Enterprises, a software company providing custom software to both government and corporate entities. Mr. Persinger developed the field forensic software Field Search, distributed by the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center. One of his applications is used by U.S. Probation and Parole to catch on-line child predators.

Mr. Persinger has several patents pending on software to be released later this year.

Field Search Software was designed specifically to allow fast and meaningful exams of offender’s computers in the field. The easy to use software comes with a 70-page manual to assist field officers in using the application.

The application allows officers to accomplish the following tasks within 30 minutes:
1. Search logical URL and Cookie histories (listings of places web browsers have gone).
2. Find all logical images (pictures which still exist as files on the computer).
3. Search logical files for text or phrases.
4. List media available to the user on the system.
5. Copy seized evidence onto removable media.
6. Produce an exportable report containing system configuration and all evidence seized (with associated path and CAM dates).
7. Export information into a spreadsheet for further examination.
8. Extract browser (URL) histories from file slack space and volume free space (listings which have been deleted but remain on the drive). This function adds significant time to the examination.

Field Search Forensics: Managing Sex Offenders is a class providing management and field officers with a full understanding of:
1. Basics of field forensics.
2. The adult web and how it is used by sex offenders.
3. What constitutes contraband on a sex offender’s computer (often missed by examiners).
4. How to set responsible conditions of Internet use.
5. Legal issues surrounding supervision conditions.
6. Use of Field Search software.
7. Cyber security in a changing world.

To register on online, please click here. Or you may send by U.S. mail to:

PM Investigations, Inc.
Attention: Training
400 Galleria Parkway
Suite 1500
Atlanta, Georgia 30060

To download a copy of this outline, please click here.