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Audio, Handout & Links
"Critical Connections: Sharing Data to Protect the Public"
Joint session of the Law and Criminal Justice Standing Committee
and
Communications, Technology and Interstate Commerce Committee

Fall Forum
December 12, 2002
Washington, D.C.

"Critical Connections: Sharing Data to Protect the Public" - Audio

Note: You will need RealPlayer installed; free download available at http://www.real.com/.

Timely, effective sharing of information among various levels of law enforcement is critical to preventing terrorist and other criminal acts. This session will examine how the latest tools and technologies aid local, state and federal authorities in combating terrorism and investigating serial crime.

Senator Steve Kelley
1400 AT&T Tower
901 Marquette Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55402
(612) 305-1442
steve@stevekelley.org

Senator Steve Kelley represents Senate District 44, Hopkins, St. Louis Park and part of Minnetonka, in the Minnesota Senate. He has been an active proponent of telecommunications reform since his election to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1992. Elected to the Minnesota Senate in 1996, he serves as the vice-chair of the Senate Telecommunications Energy and Utilities Committee. For 2001-2002 he is the chair of the National Conference of State Legislatures' Communications and Information Policy Committee. From 1997-2000 he was the chair of the Senate's Ad Hoc Committee on Information Technology. Senator Kelley received his bachelor's from Williams College and his law degree from the Columbia University School of Law. In his other life, Senator Kelley is Of Counsel at Mackall Crounse & Moore PLC, a Minneapolis law firm.

Senator Michael S. Sanchez
P.O. Box 1297
Los Lunas, NM 87031
(505) 865-0688
senate@state.nm.us

Senator Sanchez chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, and currently is co-chair of a Corrections Oversight and Justice Interim Committee. He is a past chair of NCSL's Criminal Justice Committee, past member of NCSL's Executive Committee, and currently chairs NCSL's Standing Committee on Law and Criminal Justice. An attorney, he practices law in, Los Lunas, New Mexico.

Senator Michael A.L. Balboni
7th District - Part of Nassau County
803 Legislative Office Building
Albany, New York 12247
518-455-2471
balboni@senate.state.ny.us

Elected to the New York State Senate in 1997, Senator Michael A.L. Balboni is now serving his third term in the 7th Senate District after representing the 17th Assembly District for nearly eight years. A 1981 graduate of Adelphi University with honors, Senator Balboni earned his law degree from St. John's University School of Law in 1984. Upon admission to the bar in 1985, he began his career in public service as Legislative Counsel to former Senator John R. Dunne, then as counsel to the New York State Judiciary Committee, and as legislative counsel to the Deputy Majority Leader of the Senate. In 1987, Senator Balboni was appointed Deputy County Attorney in Nassau County where he served as legislative liaison and represented the county's interests in litigation. First elected to the NYS Assembly in 1990, Mr. Balboni was the principal architect of several major anti-crime laws designed to protect women and their children against domestic violence. In 1998, Senator Balboni was appointed Vice Chair of the Law and Justice Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). He currently is a vice chair of the NCSL Law and Criminal Justice Standing Committee, and a member of the NCSL Protecting Democracy Task Force. He also serves as a New York State representative to the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL), and received in 2001 a fellowship from the Flemming Fellows Leadership Institute. Senator Balboni has authored several law review articles, including two published in the Fordham Urban Law Journal, and is an adjunct professor of political science at Adelphi University. Senator Balboni is Chair of Senate committees on Ethics and Water Resources, and he serves as a member to the committees on Aging, Children and Families, Environmental Conservation, Higher Education, Insurance and the Judiciary. He also is Co-Chairman of the Administrative Regulations Review Comission.

Mr. Hodges serves as the national issues coordinator for the Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS), a federally funded project of the Bureau of Justice Assistance. He coordinates activities for the interconnection between RISS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation Law Enforcement Online computer systems, the RISS Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, and the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange project. His law enforcement career began in 1973 as a police officer with the Meredith Police Department. From 1974 to 2001, he worked for the Belknap County Sheriff's Department. From 1990 to 2001, he served six consecutive terms as High Sheriff for Belknap County. He has served as a board member and chairman of the New England State Police Information Network (NESPIN) policy board, one of the regional RISS Intelligence Centers. He has served as president of the New Hampshire Sheriffs' Association and as a board member of the New Hampshire Police Association. Mr. Hodges attended law enforcement courses at Babson College in 1986 and 1984. He graduated third in his class at the New Hampshire Police Academy in 1975 and earned a bachelor of science degree in criminal justice from St. Anselm's College.

Dr. Kim Rossmo
Director of Research
Police Foundation
120 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
(202) 721-9777
krossmo@policefoundation.org

Kim Rossmo, PhD, is Director of Research for the Police Foundation. A 21-year veteran of the
Vancouver, British Columbia, Police Department, Dr. Rossmo holds a PhD in Criminology from Simon Fraser University, where he also earned a master's degree in criminology. Over the course of his policing career, Dr. Rossmo has worked in organized crime intelligence, emergency response, patrol, crime prevention, and community liaison. He is vice president of the Canadian Association of Violent Crime Analysts, a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Advisory Committee for Police Investigative Operations, and the former executive vice president of the Canadian Police Association. He is an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University, a visiting professor at the University of Houston, and sits on the editorial board for the international journal Homicide Studies. He is a member of the American Society of Criminology, and a fellow of the Western Society of Criminology. Dr. Rossmo has researched and published in the areas of policing, offender profiling, and environmental criminology. He is the author of Geographic Profiling and a contributor to dozens of journals, books, and reports, primarily in the area of criminal geographic profiling.

Thomas Coty
Senior Program Manager
Office of Science and Technology
National Institute of Justice
810 7^th St NW
Washington, DC 20531
COTYT@OJP.USDOJ.GOV

Thomas Coty is a senior program manager for the National Institute of Justice, managing the AGILE program which addresses communications interoperability and information sharing issues on behalf of more than 30,000 public safety agencies. He has more than 20 years of federal service, joining the National Institute of Justice in September 1997. He was responsible for the creation of the Office of Science and Technology's Video Sensing Technology Development Program, an effort involved in facial recognition, advanced video surveillance and monitoring technologies, assessment of infrared sensors use for law enforcement, and CCTV surveys. Prior to joining NIJ, Mr. Coty was recognized as an expert in high performance thermal target acquisition systems while employed as a senior systems engineer at the U.S. Army's Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate. In 1990, Mr. Coty managed the development and delivery of the first prototype high performance thermal sensor to the Army and subsequently went on to serve as the project lead for the successful integration of advanced thermal sensors to the M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle. From April 1995 through May 1996, Mr. Coty was detailed to the Pentagon within the Office of the Army's Chief Scientist with oversight of the Army's technology-related countermine issues as NATO troops were deployed in Bosnia. Mr. Coty also has several years of experience analyzing and measuring the performance of visible and infrared optical components. Mr. Coty received a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Connecticut.

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