 Need some training hours? Cost: This Symposium will provide 14 hours of training. DPSST F-6 Form information is listed with each presentation below:
SYMPOSIUM PRESENTERS
Dr. Bennett has worked for the King County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) from 1990 to 2021. During her distinguished career, she has served in many capacities. Most recently, she was promoted to the rank of Major within KCSO and served as the Administrative Major of Strategic Planning and Operations. Michelle has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Law and Justice, a Master of Science degree in the field of Psychology / Organizational Development and Behavior, and a Doctorate in Education, with an emphasis in Curriculum and Instruction. She is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Police Staff and Command and of the FBI national Academy and has taught criminal justice classes since 1998 at a variety of academic settings. Topic: Creating a Civil and Respectful Policing Culture training is a comprehensive training designed to foster understanding, meaning, and clarity as well as the legal ramifications regarding the topics of workplace incivility, bullying, and violence. Workshop participants will learn about the causes of, and damaging effects of, negative workplace behaviors and actions. Participants will also learn powerful tools, tips, and techniques to confront and address these behaviors and to confidently combat workplace incivility and bullying. This presentation provides:
Attorney Daigle specializes in Civil Rights litigation and Law Enforcement Operations Consultant. He also conducts training on use of force standards, including electronic control weapons and responses to force/deadly force incidents. Attorney Daigle acts in his capacity as a Law Enforcement Consultant providing guidance and oversight to department command staff on operations, force response, and risk management. He has served as an expert witness in use of force cases and has reviewed use of force incidents around the Attorney Daigle serves as a member of independent monitoring teams and acts as an auditor in reviewing police department organizational compliance with procedural revisions directed or overseen by the Federal court system. Topic: Finding Our Way Forward Together will focus on identifying national issues, providing statistical clarity, and looking for a way forward together through legal protection, better policy, better training, and community involvement.
Paul Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver where he studies decision making, human performance, and system safety in the context of use-of-force encounters. He was a lead instructor for the Force Science Institute certification course (Attention & Decision-Making) and the Advanced Specialist course. Paul has over ten years of practical law enforcement experience including time as a department training manager, patrol sergeant, and use-of-force instructor. He is a Colorado POST certified train-the-trainer, an IADLEST Certified Instructor, and a subject matter expert on the Colorado POST Curriculum Committee. Paul has delivered law enforcement instruction for academy, field training, and advanced in-service audiences as well as graduate and undergraduate level courses. He is actively engaged in law enforcement research and training across the United States and regularly presents at both academic and practitioner conferences. Topic: Investigating "Human Error" will focus on the fact that law enforcement use of deadly force has become one of the most visible and controversial aspects of the U.S. criminal justice system. Yet, most police involved deaths never rise to the level of public consciousness. The controversy and public discourse tend to center on handful of cases in which the outcome does not seem match the actual threat the officer faced in hindsight. These cases often involve elements of human error and are typically investigated against a backdrop of intense political, public, and organizational scrutiny. This seminar explores strategies for investigating and/or reviewing these difficult cases.
Katie Kammer is a Pre-Loss Attorney for CIS, advising members on a variety of employment law issues. In addition to guiding members through the disciplinary process as part of the Pre-Loss program, Katie also regularly advises on non-disciplinary personnel issues such as family and medical leave, disability accommodations, and Oregon’s veterans’ preference law. She loves traveling around the state to conduct trainings for members, their supervisors, employees, and elected officials, and is the host of CIS’s employment law podcast, Kammersations. Prior to joining CIS, Katie was an attorney with Miller Nash Graham & Dunn LLP where she cultivated an active employment law advice practice and represented both private and public sector employers in state and federal court and with claims before Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Katie is active in the Oregon State Bar, currently serving on the Government Law Section Executive Committee, and has been honored for her work in Employment and Labor Law with Oregon Superlawyers. Katie was born and raised in Eugene, with a ten-year layover in the Midwest where she graduated with honors from Northwestern University (B.S Education and Social Policy) and magna cum laude from Loyola University Chicago School of Law (J.D.). Ashley Driscoll, Associate Attorney with Beery Elsner & Hammond, works on a full range of municipal law issues for her clients including employment and labor, police and public safety, public records, and open meetings. Ashley also works exclusively with Oregon local governments on labor and employment matters as a management representative. She clerked for a union-side law firm and for the Oregon Department of Justice, Trial Division, Tort and Employment Section, and has given countless presentations and trainings on municipal law issues, with topics including Oregon Public Meetings Law, legislative updates; effective discipline and discharge and navigating the Public Employees Collective Bargaining Act. Topic: Navigating the Pre-Loss, Claims, Labor, and Employment Law Playing Field(s) - Protecting Your Agency & Avoiding the Landmines. Labor (or union) law and employment law are two separate subjects, but are often overlapping and can be confusing. Katie Kammer, CIS Pre-Loss Attorney, and Ashley Driscoll, a labor law attorney, will discuss how the two areas of law intersect, as well as when and how your city should involve CIS Pre-Law and labor counsel. Katie and Ashley will discuss foundational principles of how labor and employment law overlap, and then apply those principles to a hypothetical situation. The presentation will conclude with reviewing what Katie and Ashley believe are the top ten most difficult labor/employment law issues and tips on how to handle them.
Desmond Lomax Arbinger Institute: The Outward Mindset Desmond Lomax is a clinical mental health therapist who worked in the field of law enforcement and corrections for over 20 years. He retired from the Utah Department of Corrections, where he worked as the community programming director, in early 2020 and joined Arbinger as a senior consultant. At the Utah Department of Corrections, Desmond worked to expand treatment resources for those on probation and parole throughout the State of Utah. He has a passion for helping others and was led by this passion to the field of therapy and corrections. He thoroughly enjoyed facilitating outward mindset workshops within the Utah Department of Corrections and saw the benefits that outward mindset brought to the department and the community it serves. Desmond is an adjunct professor for the University of Utah in the field of forensic social work. He is a past president of the Utah Mental Health Counseling Association. He has a wife of 22 years who is a two-time cancer survivor. Topic: Avoid the Pitfalls of Inwardness to Maximize Your Ability to Lead! In this session, attendees will learn about proven, practical tools to influence change in individuals and across organizations. Participants will come to fully understand that to effectively influence others to change we must let ourselves be changed…and that one of the best ways to change ourselves is to truly focus on others’ needs, challenges, and objectives. By the end of this session, participants will have been introduced to tools that will help them change their own perspectives and then invite others to change in ways that reduce resistance and inspire commitment rather than compliance. For more information about Arbinger, click here. Thank you to our Symposium Sponsors!
The Daigle Law Group is partnering with the OACP by making available some of their high quality training. DLG Learning Center provides easy access to high quality online law enforcement education on-demand. They are also one of the nation's leading law firms specializing in the development of effective and constitutional policing practices. Click here for more information.
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