April 25 at 12:45 pm – 5:15 pm Eastern
April 26 at 12:15 pm – 5:00 pm Eastern
April 27 at 12:15 pm – 5:30 pm Eastern

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The Department of Justice’s National Indian Country Training Initiative and the Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit is providing a three-day webinar series on Investigating and Prosecuting Human Trafficking in Tribal Communities. The online training will be held on April 25-27, 2023. 

This webinar training is for federal and Tribal criminal justice professionals working in Indian country. This seminar will serve to enhance participant’s understanding of legal definitions, elements of federal offenses, and current issues and challenges of human trafficking enforcement, to include both labor trafficking and sex trafficking. The training will include presentations on effective strategies for identifying, investigating, and prosecuting human trafficking cases, including prosecutors’ roles in planning successful enforcement operations; strategies for developing victim testimony; pretrial litigation strategies; effective trial presentation in human trafficking prosecutions; and sentencing issues. The focus of the training will be prosecutions in federal court. There is no tuition charge for this training. Although participation for all three days is not mandatory, it is highly encouraged. CLE has been requested.

If you have any questions, please contact Heather Cumper at heather.cumper@usdoj.gov, Delores Johnson at delores.Johnson@usdoj.gov, or Leslie A. Hagen at leslie.hagen3@usdoj.gov.