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The SEARCH National Technical Assistance and Training Program.


SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, has a National Technical Assistance and Training Program that offers on-site, no-cost technical assistance. Available to law enforcement personnel, prosecutors, public defenders, jail administrators, court officials, correctional officers, probation and parole officers, and associated agencies, the technical assistance activities, services, and products help these entities determine system needs, establish system requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. , and design or procure cost-effective, integrated information and workload management systems. Projects include working with law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).  to implement mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings , computer-aided dispatch, mugshot and fingerprint identification, and records management system technologies; assisting prosecutors, public defenders, and court officials with case management information systems; working with jails, corrections, and probation and parole agencies to implement offender tracking programs; and, most important, helping each agency work toward integrating its information management system technologies.

SEARCH offers training courses to local, state, and federal agencies on such topics as seizure and examination of microcomputers, investigation of computer crime, Internet crime Internet crime is crime committed on the Internet, using the Internet and by means of the Internet.

Computer crime is a general term that embraces such crimes as phishing, credit card frauds, bank robbery, illegal downloading, industrial espionage, child pornography,
 investigation, investigation of on-line child exploitation, basic local area network investigations, and child pornography Child pornography is the visual representation of minors under the age of 18 engaged in sexual activity or the visual representation of minors engaging in lewd or erotic behavior designed to arouse the viewer's sexual interest.  and the Internet. On-site training occurs at SEARCH's National Criminal Justice Computer Laboratory and Training Center in Sacramento, California “Sacramento” redirects here. For other uses, see Sacramento (disambiguation).
Sacramento is the capital of the State of California and the county seat of Sacramento County.
. SEARCH also provides outreach training at regional training facilities nationwide.

Other technical assistance and training resources include technical bulletin series, Internet services, and conferences, workshops, and symposia. For further information, contact SEARCH at 916-392-2550 or access its Web site at http://

www.search.org.
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Publication:The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Nov 1, 2000
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