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Are you attending the International Association of Chiefs of Police 2024 Officer Safety and Wellness Conference, either in-person or virtually? Make sure to catch Force Science's session with Von Kliem and Nicole F. on 'Asking Too Much: How Interviews Can Ruin Investigations and Re-traumatize Officers.' This session will explore the critical issues surrounding the interview process, highlighting the disconnect between current methods and the true capabilities and limitations of human performance. Discover more about this and other critical topics at https://lnkd.in/gTrHEuGr

In case you missed it, we've been busy diving into the complexities of the HTI-2 proposed rule, and we've pulled together a comprehensive blog series to help you make sense of it all. Check out the full HTI-2 Blog Series here: https://hubs.li/Q02Q74J-0 A big shoutout to Kim Boyd, our Regulatory Resource Center Lead, who put in countless hours analyzing the HTI-2 proposed rule. Her expertise shines through in every post, breaking down how these policies connect and what they mean for your organization. We hope you find these insights valuable—and maybe they’ll save you a little time in the process. If your organization needs help untangling the nuances of this rule or any other policy (federal or state), our team is here to guide you through the weeds. Don’t hesitate to reach out!

If you have a chance, check out my article this week on SBA CPC tabs. #sbalending #sba #sbacpctabs #sbaloanworkouts

Finished the course the “Frye, Daubert, and PCAST: Countering Admissibility Challenges” from Forensic Technology Center of Excellence – Awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The webinar “Frye, Daubert, and PCAST: Countering Admissibility Challenges” provided an in-depth look at the evolution of standards for the admissibility of scientific evidence in court. This training was presented as a part of the National Center on Forensics. In this session, a panel of experts review the evolution of Frye and the progression to Daubert regarding standards of admissibility, and the publication of the 2016 PCAST report. This discussion highlights the pros and cons of the Frye Standard vs the Daubert Standard, the PCAST Report standards to be used in forensic investigations with specific examples, and countering PCAST admissibility challenges in Daubert cases.

Check out the front page of the February 16th edition of The Standard to learn about our recent discussion at the New England AICP meeting, including how compliance is regulated here in New Hampshire.

In the latest CDER Conversation, Alexandria Smith, MSPH, a social scientist with the Office of Communications’ Research and Risk Communications staff, discusses the communications testing program and how it helps ensure the information CDER shares is understandable, relevant, trustworthy, and useful: https://lnkd.in/gx6FVrms

It's almost time for txEDCON 2024! Mark your calendar NOW for Friday's presentation with our risk management experts discussing hot tips for Navigating Coverage for your Safety and Security Personnel.

This will be a very interesting CPD session delivered by Jessica Cannon. Don’t miss it! When I first started my career in strata law, I formed a habit of reviewing all recent adjudication decisions each week. Everyone procrastinates at their desk from time to time, and that’s how I have done it for many years (and I still do it!). It’s interesting to see the disputes that arise and how adjudicators resolve them. You get a sense of the personal style adjudicators have. It widens your experience when you read what other schemes have gone through. One of the cases Jessica will delve into involves a dispute about whether a body corporate could exercise its statutory power to have contractors regularly enter a unit to abseil from its balcony for a project that would take a year. Is such lengthy and intrusive entry reasonably necessary for the works that have to be done? Can an owner or occupier push back on that?

https://lnkd.in/gSpyNKua The level of nonsense pseudo-legal analysis is stunning. It essentially runs thus, “This special counsel is not valid, because I just don’t think so. And all the laws that provide for the existence of such a person — don’t worry about those. I read them, and I just don’t agree. So the case is over.” Bear in mind, the documents in this case were among the most sensitive and highly classified documents which bear such classifications. Among these documents were several bearing the stamp, “SCI.” “Sensitive compartmented information.” Those could have been plans for the infrastructure required for future wars with enemy nations, plans which required extensive knowledge, expertise, and intelligence. These documents threatened national security. And they were just sitting around, in bathrooms, in hallways, and even on the stage of some kind of ballroom in Mar-a-Lago, with no regard for the sensitivity of the information contained within, retained well beyond the duration of the term of the presidency, and in violation of law. Furthermore, the defendant even lied about returning all of the documents. #classifieddocuments #classified #topsecret #sensitivecompartmentedinformation #sci