2308: ICAC Investigations: Getting Started
Wednesday, June
23, 2004
1:00pm – 2:30pm
Presenters: Ronald Laney and Brad Russ
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION
This workshop will provide participants with an overview of the federal
Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force initiative. Participants will be
taken through a self-assessment process where they will evaluate for
themselves if their agency is prepared to conduct both proactive and
reactive investigations involving computer-facilitated crimes against
children. The ICAC Task Force standards will be reviewed along with the
fundamental operational and managerial requirements to qualify for funding
or to be linked to an existing task force. The recently released results of
the OJJDP Juvenile On-Line Victimization (JOVIS) study will be reviewed
along with the corresponding recommendations for a modified prevention and
education message to adolescents. Methods for accessing training and
technical assistance on a wide range of child abuse and exploitation issues
for state and local agencies will also be provided during the workshop.
PRESENTERS BIO
Ronald C. Laney
has been Associate Administrator of the Child Protection Division since
February 2000. As the Associate Administrator, he administers projects,
programs, and initiatives related to crimes against children and children
exposed to violence. This includes providing leadership and funding in the
areas of prevention, intervention, treatment, and enforcement. From 1993 to
2000, he served as the Director of the Missing and Exploited Children’s
Program. From 1981 through April 1993 as OJJDP’s Law Enforcement Program
Manager, he developed a series of National Law Enforcement Training programs
that are still offered throughout the country today. More than 50,000
prosecutors, law enforcement, and child protective and medical officials
have participated in these training programs since 1982. Prior to coming to
OJJDP, Mr. Laney was a Program Manager in the Law Enforcement Assistance
Administration for 5 years.
Mr. Laney served as a probation officer in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1974.
He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1964 to 1970 before being wounded
during his second tour in Vietnam.
Mr. Laney has received numerous awards from local and state law enforcement
organizations for his work in juvenile law enforcement. He has a Masters
degree in Criminal Justice from the University of South Florida and a
Bachelors degree in Criminology from the University of Tampa, FL.
On January 1st, 2003, Bradley Russ retired as the Police Chief for
Portsmouth, New Hampshire Police Department after serving nearly 25 years
with that agency. As a Program Manager for Fox Valley Technical College,
Brad now serves as the first Director of Training and Technical Assistance
for the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program. In this
capacity, he is responsible for the coordination of all training and
technical assistance activities for 36 regional and over 50 satellite ICAC
task force sites through funding provided by the Office of Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).
Brad has a long history of accomplishments working in the field of law
enforcement with a lifelong emphasis upon protecting our nation’s most
vulnerable population. Prior to his appointment as Chief, Brad was in charge
of the Bureau of Investigative Services for five years, where his
responsibilities included the management and supervision of the criminal
investigation, youth services, narcotics, school resource officers, early
intervention, and community education programs. While a juvenile officer,
Brad pioneered the police department’s Child Abuse Unit in 1983 and is one
of the original founding members of his state’s first full child protection
multi-disciplinary team established later that year. Under Brad’s
leadership, the Child Protection Team has expanded its focus to include an
interdisciplinary response to a wide array of child protection issues. Brad
was also instrumental in the creation of the Seacoast Assessment Team, which
currently serves as a community-based system designed to improve early
intervention and prevention services to assist children and their families.
The Attorney General appointed Brad as the co-chair of a task force, which
led to the implementation of statewide child abuse investigative protocols
two years later. Brad has served as the legislative chair for the New
Hampshire Task Force on Child Abuse and for all youth related legislation
for the New Hampshire Police Chief’s Executive Board. Perhaps Brad’s
proudest accomplishment has been the establishment of the state’s first
Child Advocacy Center where he served as the Board President for the past
three years.
After teaching at his state academy for a number of years on a variety of
child protection issues, then Sergeant Russ, was invited to serve as an
instructor for OJJDP in 1986, and has been actively involved in every
program developed since that time. As a senior instructor, he has provided
training to thousands of child protection professionals at national
conferences and training sites throughout the country on a wide variety of
subjects. Earlier this year, Brad was invited to co-locate the ICAC project
with the nationally renowned Crimes Against Children Research Center at the
University of New Hampshire alongside their Director Dr. David Finkelhor.
Brad received his BA from the University of New Hampshire in 1980, is a
graduate of the 163rd session of the FBI National Academy, and a 2002
graduate of the FBI’s Law Enforcement Executive Development (LEEDS) program.
Brad was elected to the Board of the National Children’s Alliance in 2002
and currently co-chairs the Public Policy Committee. Brad is a past
president of the New Hampshire Police Association and was elected to serve
on the New Hampshire Police Chief’s Executive Board. He is the author of
several articles and child protection related publications.
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