OSBI Legal Division

Mission

"Advocacy" - The mission of the OSBI Legal Department is to identify, anticipate, and address the legal needs of the OSBI by providing timely, thorough, and accurate information to the agency, criminal justice community, and the public.

Vision

The OSBI Legal Department will offer proactive, consistent and reliable advice and representation at all times. It will always provide innovative, progressive thinking to assist in solving the problems faced by the OSBI. It will be a place where the "old tried and true" methods will be supplemented with "thinking outside the box". It will be a place where "ideas come to thrive", not to die. It will become more involved in providing training to the OSBI and the law enforcement community and will be a leading force in efforts to identify and provide learning opportunities. It will provide focused legal updates and alerts targeted directly and specifically to employees' unique concerns and needs. The attorneys of the OSBI Legal Department will be recognized as experts in legal issues affecting the law enforcement community and will submit and publish scholarly works designed to educate the public and the legal community on issues concerning the OSBI. It will become more active in the actual prosecution of criminal matters by directly representing the OSBI in discovery disputes, property disposition issues, warrants and subpoenas, and other evidentiary Motions and Applications in criminal cases throughout the state.