2015 Symposium Posters

Project Members
Teri Flory, Rachel Sitarz

Many national needs assessments were conducted in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s by the Department of Justice and the National Institute of Justice, which all indicated that State and Local Law Enforcement did not have the training, tools, or staff to effectively conduct digital investigations (Institute for Security and Technology Studies [ISTS], 2002; National Institute of Justice [NIJ], 2004). Some of these needs assessments have also been conducted at a state level, but Indiana is not one of those states (Gogolin & Jones, 2010). Further, there are multiple training opportunities and publications that are available at no cost to state and local law enforcement, but it is not clear how many agencies use these resources (https://www.fletc.gov/ state-local-tribal; https://www.ncfi.usss.gov). This pilot study will provide a more up to date and localized assessment of the ability of Indiana Law Enforcement Agencies to effectively investigate when a crime that involves digital evidence is alleged to have occurred.