2442: Corporate Panel Discussion

Thursday, June 24, 2004
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Presenters: Sergeant Nick Battaglia, Deputy District Attorney Charles Gillingham, and Daniel Armagh, Director of Legal Education (NCMEC)

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION

Experts from Law Enforcement and State and Federal Prosecution will be available to answer questions from corporate security and/or management on ways for the corporate world and law enforcement to work together when possible criminal investigative situations arise.

PRESENTERS BIO

Sergeant Nick L. Battaglia has been employed with the San Jose, California Police Department since February, 1974. During his career, he has worked Patrol, Vice Investigations, Mobil Emergency Response Team, Robbery, Narcotics/Covert Investigations, Major Narcotics International Investigations, Burglary, Missing Persons, Training, and Sexual Assault Investigations. He is credited with implementing the first Child Exploitation Unit in Northern California. In 1988 Sergeant Battaglia was named Police Officer of the year by the San Jose City Council for his work in the area of Child Exploitation. He is recognized as an expert in pornography, child pornography, and child sexual exploitation nationwide. He has provided expert testimony to the United States Congress, California State Legislature, and Superior Courts across the nation.

Sergeant Battaglia has been lecturing in the area of Child Pornography and Child Sexual Exploitation for the past twenty-five years. He has been an instructor for the Office Of Juvenile Justice, Delinquency, and Prevention for the past twenty years. He is the co-author of OJJDP’s pamphlet on “Use of Computers in the Sexual Exploitation of Children” and the author of OJJDP’s “Child Sexual Exploitation”.

Sergeant Battaglia is currently the supervisor of the San Jose Police Department’s Child Exploitation Unit and Silicon Valley Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force.

Charles Gillingham has been a Deputy District Attorney with the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office since 1994. Presently assigned to the sexual assault unit, he has handled the prosecution of three-strike, robberies, child molest, homicide and death penalty cases.

He is a regular instructor for the California District Attorney's Association training prosecutors in evidence and trial advocacy. He is an Instructor at the Santa Clara University School of Law teaching evidence. Mr. Gillingham has taught many courses for local law enforcement and instructs at the Basic Police Academy. He is member of the San Jose ICAC Task Force.

Daniel Armagh received his law degree from the University of Oklahoma with honors where he received the American Jurisprudence Award for Achievement in the study of Legal Process in Contract Law. Mr. Armagh also studied at Queen’s College and Oxford University, United Kingdom. Mr. Armagh became Director of Legal Education at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in September of 1999. Among Mr. Armagh’s responsibilities as Director of Legal Education is to train attorneys, law enforcement, and other professionals how to investigate and prosecute crimes against children. He also provides technical assistance on a wide variety of issues impacting children in the areas of the sexual exploitation of children, physical abuse of children, child abduction, and child fatalities. Mr. Armagh lectures frequently on crimes against children in national and international forums, most recently at INTERPOL in Lyon, France; ARD-CHECHI in Moscow, Russia; ISPCAN in Denver, CO; and EUROPOL in Thun, Switzerland. He is a nationally recognized expert in the areas of investigation and prosecution of computer – facilitated crimes against children, sexual exploitation of children, child pornography, and child physical abuse and fatalities.

Prior to joining the staff at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Mr. Armagh was Director of APRI’s National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse for five years. Under Mr. Armagh’s direction, the Center’s expert staff provided training and technical assistance to prosecutors and other professionals nationwide concerning the investigation and prosecution of sexual, physical, and fatal child abuse.

Before joining APRI, Mr. Armagh was an assistant district attorney for Lawrence County, Pennsylvania and as such, he was the director of the Sensitive Crimes Unit with emphasis on the prosecution of crimes against children. Mr. Armagh has litigated cases involving child abuse for ten years and has litigated over 150 jury trials in this area of specialization. He has argued before the highest courts on appellate issues in Oklahoma and Pennsylvania, and has authored various articles in the area of child abuse. Mr. Armagh authored the Brief as AMICUS CURIAE on behalf of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the case Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, No. 00-795, before the U.S. Supreme Court. His most recent articles are entitled; A Safety Net for the Internet: Protecting Our Children, published in the Journal of Juvenile Justice, (Vol. V, No. 1), US Department of Justice (1998); A Case Analysis: Computer – Assisted Exploitation of Children via the Internet, APSAC Advisor (American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children – January, 1999); Use of Computers in the Sexual Exploitation of Children, Office of Justice Programs, OJJDP, Department of Justice, (June, 1999), Virtual Child Pornography: Free Speech or Criminal Conduct, Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 23, No. 6, (August 2002).

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