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Unlocking digital evidence: BCI’s Cyber Crimes Unit helps law enforcement access, preserve valuable data

Cellphones packed with text messages, emails, phone numbers, photos, location data, and chat logs are valuable sources of information for criminal investigators. Many of the phones that law enforcement officers confiscate, however, are locked by passwords, damaged, or contain encrypted data.

9/28/2017

Q&A: Cynthia Peterman, director of Intelligence and OHLEG at BCI

The Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) maintains the Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway (OHLEG), an electronic information network that allows law enforcement agencies to share data on criminal histories, evidence submissions, missing children, gangs, protection orders, and more. 

9/28/2017

DeWine awards $2.7 million in grants for drug prevention in schools

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is awarding more than $2.7 million in grant money to law enforcement agencies that present drug-prevention programs at Ohio’s public schools.

9/28/2017

A letter from the Attorney General:

When parents suffer from addiction, they don’t suffer alone. Their children become innocent victims traumatized by living in chaos. As the opioid epidemic has taken hold in Ohio, more children have been put at risk by parental addiction. Increasingly, those children have been entering the child welfare system, including foster care.

9/28/2017

Former spy plane pilot to share story of survival, determination

Retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Brian Shul, who overcame life-threatening injuries to become the pilot of the fastest plane in history, will be the keynote speaker at the Ohio Attorney General’s 2017 Law Enforcement Conference.
 

9/28/2017

With opioids, just a speck can be deadly

A person doesn’t have to be an opioid abuser to be injured or killed by the drug. Children and first responders are among those at risk of injury or death from accidental exposure.

9/28/2017

$3 million in grants awarded to 40 agencies

During a news conference in Strongsville, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced on Sept. 6 that 40 law enforcement departments and their partners will receive $3 million in grants to be used to replicate or expand partnership programs that address the opioid epidemic.

9/28/2017

Detective receives first Special Courage Award at conference

A detective who works to bridge the gap between children’s services and law enforcement was recognized with the first Special Courage Award during the awards ceremony of the 2017 Two Days in May Conference on Victim Assistance. 

7/20/2017

Pay attention to surroundings, survivor says

Gina DeJesus, who was abducted and held captive with two other girls for more than nine years in Cleveland,  urged the attendees of the May 20 in Reynoldsburg for National Missing Children’s Day to be more observant and ask more questions about things they see going on around them.

7/20/2017

Did you know?

Since the passage of House Bill 366 in 2014, hospice providers have been required to request that any opioids remaining after a patient’s treatment or death be turned over to hospice by the family for disposal. (The disposal occurs at the patient’s home and is witnessed.)

7/20/2017
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