This training video assists local, state, and tribal law enforcement line officers in understanding their roles in the protection of privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties as they perform their everyday duties.

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center (CERT/CC) is located at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a federally funded research and development center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. CERT/CC is part of the larger SEI Networked Systems Survivability Program, whose primary goals are to ensure that appropriate technology and systems management practices are used to resist attacks on networked systems and to limit damage and ensure continuity of critical services in spite of successful attacks, accidents, or failures ("survivability").

Counterterrorismtraining.gov gives access to training and technical assistance opportunities and providers dedicated to protecting the nation's technological infrastructure. Topics include cyber security, incident response, and infrastructure protection.

The IJIS Institute was awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), to provide technology assistance to local and state jurisdictions that are implementing integrated justice systems. The grant should leverage the expertise and experience of private sector information technology (IT) firms in providing technology suggestions and guidance to decisionmakers, IT project managers, governing bodies, and others faced with technology-related decisions and their implementation. Technology assistance offered under the provisions of the BJA grant provides limited, short-term engagements; telephone support for specific technology problem solving; and assistance that is staffed with representatives from multiple firms to ensure a company-neutral assessment.

Mitretek Systems is a nonprofit scientific research and engineering corporation that operates in the public interest. Mitretek conducts basic and applied research and undertakes systems engineering analyses to create scientific knowledge and technological solutions that strengthen the nation and benefit the public in the areas of criminal justice, the environment, health care, energy, homeland security and public safety, transportation, and telecommunications.

Police Executive Research Forum’s (PERF) Training and Technical Assistance Division assists law enforcement organizations and communities across the country with organizational problem solving, community policing, collaborative problem solving, supervising problem solving, community engagements, and curriculum development. PERF conducts organizational problem-solving assessments and intervention services for police agencies facing serious internal problems. PERF also facilitates community engagements that are designed to provide a framework for collaborative problem solving with police agencies, other local service providers, and communities. PERF has worked on a comprehensive recruit training curriculum and national assessment for the Police Corps, the development of a self-assessment tool for law enforcement agencies, and a peaceable communities initiative.

The Law Enforcement Information Technology Standards Council (LEITSC) promotes the merits of information technology standards. LEITSC facilitates the development of system requirements/standards, including functional standards specific to Records Management Systems (RMS) and Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) systems and technical standards for emerging technologies; provides outreach and education regarding strategic planning for information sharing, including the use of standards; and represents law enforcement in the development of standards that affect the integrated justice community.

The National Youth Gang Center (NYGC) assists policymakers, practitioners, and researchers in their efforts to reduce youth gang involvement and crime by contributing information, resources, practical tools, and expertise toward the development and implementation of effective gang prevention, intervention, and suppression strategies. NYGC also conducts assessments of the scope and characteristics of youth gang activity, develops resources, and provides training and technical assistance in support of community-based prevention, intervention, and suppression efforts.

The Web site, www.niem.gov, is a free access Web site designed to give practitioners a place to find information sharing and technology-integration resources. The Web site is specifically designed to serve the justice and public safety communities. The Web site offers ways to access information and aims to assist practitioners as they search to find needed information.

The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), founded in 1975, provides research, technical assistance, and opportunities for policymakers to exchange ideas on pressing state issues. NCSL is a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states, its commonwealths, and its territories. NCSL is governed by a 60-member executive committee, composed of legislators and legislative staff members, who are elected annually. Seven officers direct the overall work of the conference.

SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics is a nonprofit membership organization that provides assistance to justice, public safety, first responder, and homeland security practitioners with their information sharing initiatives. We provide technical assistance, resources, and models to improve the exchange of information among state, local, and tribal law enforcement and public safety; fusion centers; and federal partners to keep our communities safe. We address timely justice, public safety, and first responder information management laws, policies, and procedures as issues and events shape and change the justice and public safety landscape. We provide tailored assistance that helps jurisdictions plan for, procure, upgrade, implement, and manage information technology to prepare police, fire, and EMS agencies for successful information sharing and communications during criminal events, natural disasters, and terrorist attacks, and we teach high-tech investigators the skills they need to stay ahead of criminals in the fight against crime.