County Attorney David Holmes will travel to Alabama this month after he was selected by the U.S. Secret Service to participate in its Advanced Digital Evidence for Prosecutors (ADEP) course.
Holmes took the basics course in 2017 and applied to follow up with the advanced course, which is offered at the National Computer Forensic Institute (NCFI) in Hoover, Alabama.
NCFI training courses are offered to state and local law enforcement, prosecutors and judges through funding from the federal government. Travel, lodging, equipment and course fees are provided at no costs to attendees or their agencies.
The NCFI is a state-of-the-art, 40,000 square-foot facility and is the nation’s premier law enforcement training facility in cyber and electronic crime forensics.
The NCFI seeks to educate state, local, tribal, territorial law enforcement officers, prosecutors and judges in the continually evolving cyber and electronic crime related threats, and educate, train and equip them with the tools necessary for forensic examinations to combat those crimes.
According to NCFI, understanding the forensic process is critical for a prosecutor navigating a criminal case with digital evidence. Prosecutors will dive deep into computers and mobile devices to find hidden artifacts and learn to analyze multiple data sources during the course.
ADEP is a five-day course that provides every attendee with the requisite skills using a combination of lecture and practical exercises.
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