Social media is a powerful tool for law enforcement investigations but also carries risks, including criminal and civil liability, code of conduct violations, safety threats, and community misunderstandings. This course educates sworn and non-sworn staff on the legal and professional risks related to personal social media use. Topics include: internet culture and usage, online information accessibility, First Amendment considerations, officer safety, impacts on reputation and investigations, civil and criminal liabilities, community relations, and departmental social media policies.

This course takes a vibrant, up-to-date approach to legal update training, equipping staff and administrators with the latest legislative enactments and case law decisions that impact probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Interpret new laws and legal rulings
– Understand their implications for field operations
– Apply legal updates effectively and confidently in daily practice

This course ensures professionals remain informed, compliant, and prepared to adapt to the evolving legal landscape.

This course takes a vibrant, up-to-date approach to legal update training, equipping staff and administrators with the latest legislative enactments and case law decisions that impact probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Interpret new laws and legal rulings
– Understand their implications for field operations
– Apply legal updates effectively and confidently in daily practice

This course ensures professionals remain informed, compliant, and prepared to adapt to the evolving legal landscape.

This course provides participants with a search and seizure case law update on probation contacts.

Key topics include:
– Relevant federal and state laws
– The complaint and litigation process
– Immunities and defenses
– Direct and vicarious liability
– Third-party detentions
– Performance management strategies

Through scenario-based discussions, participants will apply legally sound, policy-aligned approaches to managing probation contacts while minimizing personal and agency liability.

Under and over 18-year-old officers have arrived to facilities. While rehabilitative programming is the mandate for all “juvenile” offenders, ongoing safety concerns for probation staff remain unaddressed.

This course equips facilities personnel with knowledge and strategies to manage these offenders effectively, covering:
– Officer and facility safety
– Offender sophistication and manipulation tactics
– Contraband issues
– Communication challenges
– Peer-victimization dynamics
– Best practices for supervision based on insights from custody staff and offender populations

Additional services include facilities safety assessments, critical incident response evaluations, and force options training.

This course is offered in both a 4-hour virtual and 8-hour in-person format.

This course explores how personality traits and behaviors influence workplace dynamics and leadership effectiveness.

Participants will be introduced to key assessment tools, including:
– The Big Five Personality Traits
– Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
– High 5 Strengths Test
– Berkeley Emotional Intelligence Quiz
– Implicit Association Test (IAT)

The course also covers practical performance management strategies, reinforced through scenario-based discussions and debriefs. Supervisors will leave with a deeper understanding of how to adapt their leadership approach to diverse personalities and enhance team performance.

With the rise in litigation against public agencies, accountability, transparency, and effective training are more important than ever. This course equips probation staff with the legal knowledge and decision-making skills necessary to minimize liability in the field.

Participants will be familiarized with:
– State and federal laws relevant to liability
– The litigation process
– Differences between civil and criminal liability
– Legal immunities
– Deliberate indifference versus bystander liability scenarios

Officers will engage in active learning, applying practical and legally sound solutions to real-world liability situations.

In this course, we explore the complex relationship of the heart (emotional dimension) and the brain (moral reasoning) and how they influence our thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors.

It aims to enhance awareness of ethical issues and equip staff with the knowledge and skills to make morally sound decisions in various situations. Ethical theories, moral principles, and department policies are examined, followed by real-life scenarios that have occurred in the field of probation in which participants will engage in practical application exercises.

With the rise in litigation against public agencies, accountability, transparency, and effective training are more important than ever. This course equips probation staff with the legal knowledge and decision-making skills necessary to minimize liability in the field.

Participants will be familiarized with:
– State and federal laws relevant to liability
– The litigation process
– Differences between civil and criminal liability
– Legal immunities
– Deliberate indifference versus bystander liability scenarios

Officers will engage in active learning, applying practical and legally sound solutions to real-world liability situations.

With the rise in litigation against public agencies, accountability, transparency, and effective training are more important than ever. This course equips probation staff with the legal knowledge and decision-making skills necessary to minimize liability in the field.

Participants will be familiarized with:
– State and federal laws relevant to liability
– The litigation process
– Differences between civil and criminal liability
– Legal immunities
– Deliberate indifference versus bystander liability scenarios

Officers will engage in active learning, applying practical and legally sound solutions to real-world liability situations.

Supervisors are the most influential body within a department because they ensure congruency of agency initiatives, policies, and practices. This course will provide a framework for leadership imperatives that embody an agency’s mission and the supervisor’s responsibility in achieving it.  Participants will be introduced to the ‘nuts and bolts’ effective management strategies, complete personality assessments, and engage role-play exercises/group discussion.

Add-On Information
* This course is taught by one of our organizational psychologists (Dr. Catherine Warren, Dr. Chris Warren, or Dr. Amy Wax).
* The content is adapted from our Supervisor Leadership Program.
* Participants complete personality assessments and discuss how different personality traits and states impact situational workplace scenarios.
* In-Person
* 8 Hours

This course takes a vibrant, up-to-date approach to legal update training, equipping staff and administrators with the latest legislative enactments and case law decisions that impact probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Interpret new laws and legal rulings
– Understand their implications for field operations
– Apply legal updates effectively and confidently in daily practice

This course ensures professionals remain informed, compliant, and prepared to adapt to the evolving legal landscape.

This course provides participants with a search and seizure case law update on probation contacts.

Key topics include:
– Relevant federal and state laws
– The complaint and litigation process
– Immunities and defenses
– Direct and vicarious liability
– Third-party detentions
– Performance management strategies

Through scenario-based discussions, participants will apply legally sound, policy-aligned approaches to managing probation contacts while minimizing personal and agency liability.

This course takes a vibrant, up-to-date approach to legal update training, equipping staff and administrators with the latest legislative enactments and case law decisions that impact probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Interpret new laws and legal rulings
– Understand their implications for field operations
– Apply legal updates effectively and confidently in daily practice

This course ensures professionals remain informed, compliant, and prepared to adapt to the evolving legal landscape.

This course offers a fresh, dynamic approach to legal update training, providing staff and administrators with the latest legislative changes and case law developments impacting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Understand recent statutory and case law updates
– Interpret how these legal changes apply to daily operations
– Apply legal principles effectively and confidently in the field

Designed to be practical and relevant, this course ensures officers stay informed and legally compliant in an evolving legal landscape.

This course offers a fresh, dynamic approach to legal update training, providing staff and administrators with the latest legislative changes and case law developments impacting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Understand recent statutory and case law updates
– Interpret how these legal changes apply to daily operations
– Apply legal principles effectively and confidently in the field

Designed to be practical and relevant, this course ensures officers stay informed and legally compliant in an evolving legal landscape.

This course offers a fresh, dynamic approach to legal update training, providing staff and administrators with the latest legislative changes and case law developments impacting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Understand recent statutory and case law updates
– Interpret how these legal changes apply to daily operations
– Apply legal principles effectively and confidently in the field

Designed to be practical and relevant, this course ensures officers stay informed and legally compliant in an evolving legal landscape.

This course takes a vibrant, up-to-date approach to legal update training, equipping staff and administrators with the latest legislative enactments and case law decisions that impact probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Interpret new laws and legal rulings
– Understand their implications for field operations
– Apply legal updates effectively and confidently in daily practice

This course ensures professionals remain informed, compliant, and prepared to adapt to the evolving legal landscape.

This course offers a fresh, dynamic approach to legal update training, providing staff and administrators with the latest legislative changes and case law developments impacting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Understand recent statutory and case law updates
– Interpret how these legal changes apply to daily operations
– Apply legal principles effectively and confidently in the field

Designed to be practical and relevant, this course ensures officers stay informed and legally compliant in an evolving legal landscape.

This course offers a fresh, dynamic approach to legal update training, providing staff and administrators with the latest legislative changes and case law developments impacting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Understand recent statutory and case law updates
– Interpret how these legal changes apply to daily operations
– Apply legal principles effectively and confidently in the field

Designed to be practical and relevant, this course ensures officers stay informed and legally compliant in an evolving legal landscape.

This course offers a fresh, dynamic approach to legal update training, providing staff and administrators with the latest legislative changes and case law developments impacting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Understand recent statutory and case law updates
– Interpret how these legal changes apply to daily operations
– Apply legal principles effectively and confidently in the field

Designed to be practical and relevant, this course ensures officers stay informed and legally compliant in an evolving legal landscape.

This course takes a vibrant, up-to-date approach to legal update training, equipping staff and administrators with the latest legislative enactments and case law decisions that impact probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Interpret new laws and legal rulings
– Understand their implications for field operations
– Apply legal updates effectively and confidently in daily practice

This course ensures professionals remain informed, compliant, and prepared to adapt to the evolving legal landscape.

Supervisors are the most influential body within a department because they ensure congruency of agency initiatives, policies, and practices. This course will provide a framework for leadership imperatives that embody an agency’s mission and the supervisor’s responsibility in achieving it.  Participants will be introduced to the ‘nuts and bolts’ effective management strategies, complete personality assessments, and engage role-play exercises/group discussion.

Add-On Information
* This course is taught by one of our organizational psychologists (Dr. Catherine Warren, Dr. Chris Warren, or Dr. Amy Wax).
* The content is adapted from our Supervisor Leadership Program.
* Participants complete personality assessments and discuss how different personality traits and states impact situational workplace scenarios.
* In-Person
* 8 Hours

Perceptions of inequality often stem from flawed service delivery models within an organization. As managers and supervisors play a key role in aligning policy with practice, it is essential they actively define, communicate, and manage behaviors that conflict with agency values, policies, and mission.

This course introduces effective management strategies that foster diversity, equity, and inclusion among internal and external stakeholders. Through case studies and group discussions, participants will explore practical approaches to building trust, ensuring accountability, and strengthening organizational culture.

This course offers a fresh, dynamic approach to legal update training, providing staff and administrators with the latest legislative changes and case law developments impacting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Understand recent statutory and case law updates
– Interpret how these legal changes apply to daily operations
– Apply legal principles effectively and confidently in the field

Designed to be practical and relevant, this course ensures officers stay informed and legally compliant in an evolving legal landscape.

This course offers a fresh, dynamic approach to legal update training, providing staff and administrators with the latest legislative changes and case law developments impacting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Understand recent statutory and case law updates
– Interpret how these legal changes apply to daily operations
– Apply legal principles effectively and confidently in the field

Designed to be practical and relevant, this course ensures officers stay informed and legally compliant in an evolving legal landscape.

This course takes a vibrant, up-to-date approach to legal update training, equipping staff and administrators with the latest legislative enactments and case law decisions that impact probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Interpret new laws and legal rulings
– Understand their implications for field operations
– Apply legal updates effectively and confidently in daily practice

This course ensures professionals remain informed, compliant, and prepared to adapt to the evolving legal landscape.

This course offers a fresh, dynamic approach to legal update training, providing staff and administrators with the latest legislative changes and case law developments impacting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Understand recent statutory and case law updates
– Interpret how these legal changes apply to daily operations
– Apply legal principles effectively and confidently in the field

Designed to be practical and relevant, this course ensures officers stay informed and legally compliant in an evolving legal landscape.

This course takes a vibrant, up-to-date approach to legal update training, equipping staff and administrators with the latest legislative enactments and case law decisions that impact probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Interpret new laws and legal rulings
– Understand their implications for field operations
– Apply legal updates effectively and confidently in daily practice

This course ensures professionals remain informed, compliant, and prepared to adapt to the evolving legal landscape.

This course offers a fresh, dynamic approach to legal update training, providing staff and administrators with the latest legislative changes and case law developments impacting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Understand recent statutory and case law updates
– Interpret how these legal changes apply to daily operations
– Apply legal principles effectively and confidently in the field

Designed to be practical and relevant, this course ensures officers stay informed and legally compliant in an evolving legal landscape.

This course offers a fresh, dynamic approach to legal update training, providing staff and administrators with the latest legislative changes and case law developments impacting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Understand recent statutory and case law updates
– Interpret how these legal changes apply to daily operations
– Apply legal principles effectively and confidently in the field

Designed to be practical and relevant, this course ensures officers stay informed and legally compliant in an evolving legal landscape.

This course offers a fresh, dynamic approach to legal update training, providing staff and administrators with the latest legislative changes and case law developments impacting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Understand recent statutory and case law updates
– Interpret how these legal changes apply to daily operations
– Apply legal principles effectively and confidently in the field

Designed to be practical and relevant, this course ensures officers stay informed and legally compliant in an evolving legal landscape.

This course takes a vibrant, up-to-date approach to legal update training, equipping staff and administrators with the latest legislative enactments and case law decisions that impact probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Interpret new laws and legal rulings
– Understand their implications for field operations
– Apply legal updates effectively and confidently in daily practice

This course ensures professionals remain informed, compliant, and prepared to adapt to the evolving legal landscape.

This engaging course provides staff and administrators with the latest updates on legislative enactments and case law affecting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Officers will learn to interpret recent legal changes and apply them effectively in real-world field operations, ensuring informed and legally sound decision-making

This engaging course provides staff and administrators with the latest updates on legislative enactments and case law affecting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Officers will learn to interpret recent legal changes and apply them effectively in real-world field operations, ensuring informed and legally sound decision-making

This engaging course provides staff and administrators with the latest updates on legislative enactments and case law affecting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Officers will learn to interpret recent legal changes and apply them effectively in real-world field operations, ensuring informed and legally sound decision-making

This engaging course provides staff and administrators with the latest updates on legislative enactments and case law affecting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Officers will learn to interpret recent legal changes and apply them effectively in real-world field operations, ensuring informed and legally sound decision-making

In today’s rapidly evolving law enforcement landscape, probation departments must balance talk, action, and reality—where are your resources truly focused?

This presentation explores the challenges and opportunities of leading in one of the most transformative periods in public safety. Topics include:
Strategies for addressing leadership gaps and reducing liability
Opportunities to positively shape and sustain organizational culture
Research on generational dynamics in the workplace, with a focus on recruitment and retention
Leaders will leave with actionable insights to strengthen their departments and guide teams through meaningful, lasting change.

Under and over 18-year-old officers have arrived to facilities. While rehabilitative programming is the mandate for all “juvenile” offenders, ongoing safety concerns for probation staff remain unaddressed.

This course equips facilities personnel with knowledge and strategies to manage these offenders effectively, covering:
– Officer and facility safety
– Offender sophistication and manipulation tactics
– Contraband issues
– Communication challenges
– Peer-victimization dynamics
– Best practices for supervision based on insights from custody staff and offender populations

Additional services include facilities safety assessments, critical incident response evaluations, and force options training.

This course is offered in both a 4-hour virtual and 8-hour in-person format.

This course offers a fresh, dynamic approach to legal update training, providing staff and administrators with the latest legislative changes and case law developments impacting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Understand recent statutory and case law updates
– Interpret how these legal changes apply to daily operations
– Apply legal principles effectively and confidently in the field

Designed to be practical and relevant, this course ensures officers stay informed and legally compliant in an evolving legal landscape.

With the rise in litigation against public agencies, accountability, transparency, and effective training are more important than ever. This course equips probation staff with the legal knowledge and decision-making skills necessary to minimize liability in the field.

Participants will be familiarized with:
– State and federal laws relevant to liability
– The litigation process
– Differences between civil and criminal liability
– Legal immunities
– Deliberate indifference versus bystander liability scenarios

Officers will engage in active learning, applying practical and legally sound solutions to real-world liability situations.

This engaging course provides staff and administrators with the latest updates on legislative enactments and case law affecting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Officers will learn to interpret recent legal changes and apply them effectively in real-world field operations, ensuring informed and legally sound decision-making

This engaging course provides staff and administrators with the latest updates on legislative enactments and case law affecting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Officers will learn to interpret recent legal changes and apply them effectively in real-world field operations, ensuring informed and legally sound decision-making

This engaging course provides staff and administrators with the latest updates on legislative enactments and case law affecting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Officers will learn to interpret recent legal changes and apply them effectively in real-world field operations, ensuring informed and legally sound decision-making

This engaging course provides staff and administrators with the latest updates on legislative enactments and case law affecting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Officers will learn to interpret recent legal changes and apply them effectively in real-world field operations, ensuring informed and legally sound decision-making

This engaging course provides staff and administrators with the latest updates on legislative enactments and case law affecting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Officers will learn to interpret recent legal changes and apply them effectively in real-world field operations, ensuring informed and legally sound decision-making

Social media is a powerful tool for law enforcement investigations but also carries risks, including criminal and civil liability, code of conduct violations, safety threats, and community misunderstandings. This course educates sworn and non-sworn staff on the legal and professional risks related to personal social media use. Topics include: internet culture and usage, online information accessibility, First Amendment considerations, officer safety, impacts on reputation and investigations, civil and criminal liabilities, community relations, and departmental social media policies.

This engaging course provides staff and administrators with the latest updates on legislative enactments and case law affecting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Officers will learn to interpret recent legal changes and apply them effectively in real-world field operations, ensuring informed and legally sound decision-making

This engaging course provides staff and administrators with the latest updates on legislative enactments and case law affecting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Officers will learn to interpret recent legal changes and apply them effectively in real-world field operations, ensuring informed and legally sound decision-making

Justice-involved youth are subject to a series of rehabilitative mandates while housed in local facilities.  However, some legislative mandates and best-practice recommendations do not account for the ongoing safety concerns these offenders may present to department personnel.

This course covers: officer/facility safety, offender sophistication, staff manipulation techniques, contraband introduction/management, effective communication strategies, peer-victimization tactics/gang activity, and non- sworn/service provider collaboration and accountability.

Add-On Information
* This course is tailored for officers who work in facilities.
* Highlights safety and security challenges, including:
* Contraband introduction
* Staff manipulation
* Civil/criminal liability
* Officer and facility safety concerns
* This course includes a guest speaker who was convicted of smuggling contraband into a correctional facility.
* In-Person
* 8 Hours

This course explores how personality traits and behaviors influence workplace dynamics and leadership effectiveness.

Participants will be introduced to key assessment tools, including:
– The Big Five Personality Traits
– Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
– High 5 Strengths Test
– Berkeley Emotional Intelligence Quiz
– Implicit Association Test (IAT)

The course also covers practical performance management strategies, reinforced through scenario-based discussions and debriefs. Supervisors will leave with a deeper understanding of how to adapt their leadership approach to diverse personalities and enhance team performance.

This course offers a fresh, dynamic approach to legal update training, providing staff and administrators with the latest legislative changes and case law developments impacting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Understand recent statutory and case law updates
– Interpret how these legal changes apply to daily operations
– Apply legal principles effectively and confidently in the field

Designed to be practical and relevant, this course ensures officers stay informed and legally compliant in an evolving legal landscape.

This course offers a fresh, dynamic approach to legal update training, providing staff and administrators with the latest legislative changes and case law developments impacting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Understand recent statutory and case law updates
– Interpret how these legal changes apply to daily operations
– Apply legal principles effectively and confidently in the field

Designed to be practical and relevant, this course ensures officers stay informed and legally compliant in an evolving legal landscape.

Perceptions of inequality often stem from flawed service delivery models within an organization. As managers and supervisors play a key role in aligning policy with practice, it is essential they actively define, communicate, and manage behaviors that conflict with agency values, policies, and mission.

This course introduces effective management strategies that foster diversity, equity, and inclusion among internal and external stakeholders. Through case studies and group discussions, participants will explore practical approaches to building trust, ensuring accountability, and strengthening organizational culture.

Taught by a lead human trafficking district attorney and regional task-force investigator, this course offers in-depth insights into trafficking activities within hotels/motels, and provides a local/state/federal intelligence update to enhance awareness and operational effectiveness.

This specialized training is exclusively available to verified peace officers and support personnel involved in human trafficking enforcement.

This course provides participants with a search and seizure case law update on probation contacts.

Key topics include:
– Relevant federal and state laws
– The complaint and litigation process
– Immunities and defenses
– Direct and vicarious liability
– Third-party detentions
– Performance management strategies

Through scenario-based discussions, participants will apply legally sound, policy-aligned approaches to managing probation contacts while minimizing personal and agency liability.

This two-day course provides an update on search and seizure laws and emphasizes best practices for managing field contacts through interactive officer role-play.

Day 1 covers:
– Updates on California and federal search and seizure laws
– Differentiating ‘typical’ versus crime-in-progress contacts for probation officers
– Mutual aid and support considerations
– Mental health awareness and de-escalation techniques
– Use of force principles: “reasonable” vs. “necessary” force

Day 2 offers practical application, where officers engage in various field contact scenarios in a controlled setting, followed by comprehensive debriefings and group discussions.

Note: This course is also available in a one-day format.

This course offers a fresh, dynamic approach to legal update training, providing staff and administrators with the latest legislative changes and case law developments impacting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Understand recent statutory and case law updates
– Interpret how these legal changes apply to daily operations
– Apply legal principles effectively and confidently in the field

Designed to be practical and relevant, this course ensures officers stay informed and legally compliant in an evolving legal landscape.

This course explores the evolution of the WIC 707 Transfer Hearing and the essential role of the Transfer Hearing Report. Participants will review legal transfer criteria, practice drafting transfer reports that include behavioral patterns, social history, and victim input, and evaluate these factors to make informed recommendations for or against transfer.

This course offers a fresh, dynamic approach to legal update training, providing staff and administrators with the latest legislative changes and case law developments impacting probation and other law enforcement agencies.

Participants will learn to:
– Understand recent statutory and case law updates
– Interpret how these legal changes apply to daily operations
– Apply legal principles effectively and confidently in the field

Designed to be practical and relevant, this course ensures officers stay informed and legally compliant in an evolving legal landscape.

This course introduces staff to proper courtroom decorum and procedures in both criminal and civil cases. Participants will gain an understanding of courtroom structure, relevant rules of evidence, and the expectations placed on officers when appearing in court.

The course includes:
– Overview of courtroom procedures
– Applicable rules of evidence
– Best practices for reviewing reports and preparing to testify
– Interactive role-play scenarios to practice testimony skills

Designed to build confidence and professionalism, this training equips officers with the tools needed to deliver clear, credible, and effective courtroom testimony.

This 80-hour program is designed for first-line supervisors. Participants will learn about formal and informal supervisory responsibilities, practical strategies to enhance supervisory skills, effective personnel management including progressive discipline, direct and vicarious liability, and key leadership principles that foster employee engagement and support the agency’s mission.

This course provides an overview of transfer hearings and report writing for probation officers. The legal portion is taught by a Juvenile DDA and covers the legal framework, statutory requirements, and key case law related to transfer hearings. The report writing portion is taught by a probation officer and focuses on the development of 707 reports, including structure, documentation, and best practices. The course combines legal insight with practical guidance to help participants better understand and prepare transfer hearing reports.

This course provides participants with a search and seizure case law update on probation contacts.

Key topics include:
– Relevant federal and state laws
– The complaint and litigation process
– Immunities and defenses
– Direct and vicarious liability
– Third-party detentions
– Performance management strategies

Through scenario-based discussions, participants will apply legally sound, policy-aligned approaches to managing probation contacts while minimizing personal and agency liability.