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ABOUT THE TRAINING
**This is an invitation-only event. Check with your NEEP, SEEN or WSP Representative for permission to attend.**
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This training will be valuable for anyone involved with gathering information/evidence, conducting interviews, taking notes, writing compliance inspection/enforcement, investigation reports, and involved with being a witness at administrative hearings, jury & court trails and giving depositions.
LOCATION: Vern Riffe Center for the Government and the Arts Ohio State Office Building, 77 South High Street, 31st floor, Room South B & C, Columbus, Ohio, 43215.
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. Attendees will be reimbursed for expenses. Travel, lodging and meals will be reimbursed to the attendees. Hotel and plane flight reservations will be arranged by the Regional Environmental Enforcement Associations (REEA). 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: Advanced; attendees must have had prior training on basic inspector/investigator skills.
A certificate of completion will be provided with a notation of 24 professional development units or hours
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 24, 2023
REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS: As the main point of contact, you are responsible for collecting the name(s) of your attendees and registering them for the event. ONLY enter for your organization. Once you have added the individual(s), you may go back and add an additional person(s) to the waitlist by returning to the registration page. If a spot opens within your organization, the next person on that organization's waitlist will automatically be emailed about the spot opening.
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
Lisa Brown Ms. Brown is currently a Deputy District Attorney for Sacramento County (part-time), a member of the California Hazardous Materials Investigators Association and a trainer in the EPA National Air Compliance Training Program. She was a Senior Staff Counsel for the California Air Resources Board from 1997-1998 and 2011-2015. From 1998 to 2011, she was the Assistant Counsel for Enforcement at the California Environmental Protection Agency where she chaired the Cal/EPA Enforcement Training Team, the State Enforcement Task Force and the Border Environmental Enforcement Task Force. From 1986-97, she was a Deputy District Attorney for San Joaquin County where she created the Environmental Crimes Prosecutions Unit, the San Joaquin County Environmental Crimes Task Force and helped write the first manual for environmental prosecutors. Ms. Brown has been a California representative to the Western States Project (a Regional Environmental Enforcement Association) and a member of their Training Committee. Ms. Brown has been an instructor for the Western States Project, the California CUPA (local programs) Conference, the California Peace Officers Training Program, the California District Attorneys Association, the California Hazardous Materials Investigators Association, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center’s Advanced Environmental Crimes Training Program. She also volunteers for the California High School Mock Trial Competition.
Ms. Brown will be teaching on Collecting & Documenting Information/Evidence, Skilled Note Taking and Writing Defensible Reports, plus Jury & Court Trials, Administrative Hearings, Depositions, Preparing to Be a Witness, Mock Testimony Exercise.
Heather Robinson
is Director of the Environmental Crimes Unit of the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office in Columbus, Ohio. Ms. Robinson specializes in the prosecution of pollution crimes, wildlife trafficking and dogfighting, and brings civil suits to enjoin environmental violations. Over the course of her career, she has prosecuted nearly the entire spectrum of criminal activity, from drunk driving to aggravated murder. Ms. Robinson is also a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, specializing in federal environmental and wildlife crimes prosecution. Ms. Robinson has instructed at the National Advocacy Center, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and the Ohio Police Officer Training Academy. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Michigan State University and her Juris Doctor degree from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
Ms. Robinson will be teaching on Jury & Court Trials, Administrative Hearings, Depositions, Preparing to Be a Witness, Mock Testimony Exercise
AGENDA
July 24, 2023 Travel Day – Check into Sheraton Columbus Hotel at Capitol Square, 75 East State Street, Columbus, Ohio. 3:00 p.m.
July 25, 2023
8:15 a.m. Sign-in
8:45 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks - Doreen Harr, NEEP Board of Directors Chairperson
9:00 a.m.- Noon Science of Deception - Michael Freeman
Active listening, observing your subject, questioning and interview skills.
Noon- 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Science of Deception (continued)
July 26, 2023
8:15 a.m. Sign-in
8:45 a.m. – Noon Verbal Judo - Michael Freeman
Fundamental knowledge and strategies necessary to improve communication, de-escalation techniques to resolve conflict.
Noon- 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Verbal Judo (continued)
July 27, 2023
8:15 a.m. Sign-in
8:45 - Noon Verbal Judo (continued)
Noon- 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Communicating Your Interview to Others - Lisa Brown
Collecting & Documenting Information/Evidence, Skilled Note Taking and Writing Defensible Reports
July 28, 2023
8:15 a.m. Sign-in
8:45 a.m. – Noon Hearings & Courtroom Testimony - Lisa Brown, Heather Robinson
Jury & Court Trials, Administrative Hearings, Depositions, Preparing to Be a Witness, Mock Testimony Exercise
Advanced Communication Skills
- July 25 - 28, 2023
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Vern Riffe Center for the Government and the Arts
77 South High Street 31st floor, Room South B&C
Columbus, Ohio
United States
43215
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