Training Opportunities
We provide online training access for free.
This Nationwide SAR Initiative strategy provides a multifaceted approach designed to increase the effectiveness in identifying, reporting, evaluating, and sharing pre-incident terrorism indicators to prevent acts of terrorism. Trainings include:
Line Officer
Private Sector Security
Fire/EMS
Probation, Parole, and Corrections
Public Safety Telecommunications
Emergency Management
Maritime
Public Health and Healthcare
The U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance – National Criminal Intelligence Resource Center (NCIRC) offers a training to assist law enforcement personnel in:
- Understanding their roles and responsibilites as they prepare for and respond to a First Amendment-protected event
- Protecting the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties of persons and groups participating in a First Amendment-protected event
- Reinforcing fundamental concepts learned at law enforcement training academies and during in-service programs
Listed under "Versions":
Training Video: Nine minutes in length, provides an overview to help law enforcement personnel prepare for, and respond to, a First Amendment-protected event and understand the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties issues associated with this type of event. At the end of the video is a short quiz with the option to print a certificate of completion.
Line Officer Roll Call Video: Four minutes in length, provides an introductory overview of law enforcement personnel's roles and responsibilities at a First Amendment-protected event. This version is designed to be used during roll call and pre-event briefings.
This collaborative web portal is a single point of access to the wide range of resources and training materials available in the Information Sharing Environment (ISE) that address Privacy and Civil Liberties protections, including products released by DOJ’s Global Advisory Committee. This portal is the result of a combined effort by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).
The 9/11 Commission Act requires Fusion Center personnel to receive training on the privacy and civil liberties issues associated with their work. Although originally intended for Fusion Center use, these resources can be easily adapted by law enforcement, criminal justice, public safety, and homeland security communities nation-wide for use in the development of their own privacy and civil liberties protections.
- The Training Tool Kit section includes privacy and civil liberties materials such as a Diversity Series for State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies entitled “Religions, Cultures, and Communities,” created by the Chicago Police Department in partnership with DOJ/BJA.
- For information on resolving common civil rights and civil liberties issues in the ISE, see the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Protections Guidance (15 pp. PDF) created by the Privacy Guidelines Committee’s (PDF, 2pp.) Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Work Group, and released by the Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE) in August 2008.
The 9/11 Commission Act requires DHS to assess the impact of the Fusion Center Initiative upon privacy and civil liberties. These assessments were published in December 2008. The assessment templates can be adapted for agencies, regardless of size.
- Civil Liberties Impact Assessment: Fusion Centers (CLIA) (9 pp. PDF), created by the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (Also see template for creating your own CLIA), and
- DHS’s Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) (42 pp. PDF), created by the DHS Privacy Office (Also see other federal PIA templates).
