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ABOUT THE TRAINING
This training is a multi-day course, focused on field safety. It is presented in three 4-hour sessions on consecutive days, and participants must be able to attend all three days of training.
Participants will:
- Learn how to recognize incidents that require de-escalation.
- Learn techniques to help deflect and redirect assault in the field through a better understanding of intent, body language, and appropriate responses.
- Discuss situations an inspector could be faced with in the field, help inspectors with threat recognition and teach techniques to deal with these situations and stay safe.
- Help inspectors gain a better understanding of their respective inspection authority (through perspective of attorneys) and will also discuss general criminal conduct of which inspectors should be aware (i.e. threats, intimidation, assault/battery, etc.).
- Help someone recognize when they could be dealing with a Sovereign Citizens.
- Discuss First Amendment Auditors.
This course will include lots of class interaction and discussion. Several videos will be shown showing “real life” stories inspectors have faced in the field, what happened, what they learned from it, and what could have been done differently.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This training will be valuable for anyone involved with doing inspections and investigations where there is a potential for threats, assaults, intimidation and the need to de-escalate such a situation.
LOCATION: Microsoft Teams Meeting
AVAILABLE TO: Members of the Regional Environmental Enforcement Associations (REEA) - Northeast Environmental Enforcement Project (NEEP) the Southern Environmental Enforcement Network (SEEN) and the Western States Project (WSP).
There is no registration fee for NEEP members. There is a $500.00 for non-NEEP attendees. Note that refunds of the registration fee are on a case-by-case basis and are at the sole discretion of NEEP. Processing fees will be deducted from the amount to be refunded and may be as much as 5% of the registration fee. This training is for government employees/officials only. Additional information will be sent to the attendees soon after the close of the registration deadline.
LEVEL: Introductory and Informational
Professional Development Units/Hours: A certificate of completion will be provided with a notation of 12 professional development units or hours
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: June 14, 2024
INSTRUCTORS:
Michael Freeman works for the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and was hired by the DEQ in September of 1994 as a regulatory inspector in the Hazardous Waste program. Mr. Freeman helped build the agency’s criminal investigation program a few years thereafter and became its first commissioned law enforcement officer. He spent almost 24 years in that position before transferring to the Land Protection Division in 2022. Mr. Freeman’s investigations have resulted in a variety of successful state and federal criminal prosecutions, ranging from minor infractions such as waste tire violations to major cases involving illegal disposal of hazardous waste, bribery, and conspiracy to defraud the United States Government. He represented Oklahoma on the Executive Committee of the Midwest Environmental Enforcement Association (MEEA) for 20 years until it formally ceased operations in 2019, and he served 2 terms in each of the positions of Secretary, Vice-chairman, and Chairman in that organization. He now serves as an Oklahoma representative to the Western States Project (WSP), a similar environmental enforcement organization. Mr. Freeman holds an Advanced Law Enforcement certification from the Oklahoma Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training and has specialized training in computer forensics and civil rights investigations. He has taught environmental crime investigation techniques and principles to thousands of officers in Oklahoma and elsewhere and is the founding President of the Oklahoma Environmental Crime Investigators Association. Mr. Freeman is a Certified Verbal Judo® instructor and has taught over 140 courses in 32 states and 2 Canadian provinces; additionally, he has authored two other training courses for regulatory inspectors – The Art and Science of Deception and Inspector Safety – and teaches those courses around the country as well.
Mr. Freeman will be teaching the Science of Deception and Verbal Judo
John Fentis is the Environmental Project Director for the California District Attorneys Association (CDAA) based in Sacramento, California. During his twelve years in this position, he has coordinated training programs for California’s environmental prosecutors and has mentored and assisted environmental enforcement personnel throughout California and other states to provide them with the confidence and experience necessary to successfully navigate this complex and oftentimes times frustrating field of enforcement. He has served as a facilitator for US EPA, an adjunct professor of law for Whittier College, School of Law and an instructor for the Western States Project.
Prior to his current position, he was an environmental prosecutor for the City of Long Beach for 25 years and served in a designated capacity for the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office as a Deputy District Attorney. He obtained his Juris Doctor from Whittier College School of Law and received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science as well as History from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
AGENDA
Note: All Times are Eastern Daylight Savings Time
June 25, 2024
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Introduction
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Inspector Stories
10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Inspector Stories
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Sovereign Citizens
June 26, 2024
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Sovereign Citizens
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. 1st Amendment Auditors
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Spotting a Potential Attack
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Personal Safety
June 27, 2024
9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Legal Issues
10:45 a.m.- 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Sausage King
Inspector and Investigator Personal Safety
- Tuesday June 25 2024, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Wednesday June 26 2024, 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Thursday June 27 2024, 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM -
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