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2006 FALL CONFERENCE P R E S S R E L E A S E
Alaska Investigators Association, Inc. P.O. Box 202314, Anchorage, AK 99520 www.akinvestigators.com Contact: Phone: 907-351-1835 / 907-374-4633 / 907-939-4394 FAX: 1-800-370-1369 Email: aia@gci.net
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Find I.T."
The 2006 Alaska Investigators Association Conference will be held on Friday, October 13, 2006 at the sumptuous Alyeska Resort in Girdwood, Alasa. This conference is open to Private Investigators, Process Servers, Paralegals and other related professions. Our theme this year is "Find I.T." and our guest speakers will be Paul Kulas, owner of Skip Tracy and Kevin Ripa, Owner and Director of Computer Evidence Recovery, Inc.
Mr. Paul Kulas, the "trap line guy" is the owner of Skip Tracy, a high tech telecommunications company that pioneered the 800 ID trap line. Attendees will learn the basic methods used to identify subscriber information from the hidden part of E-Mail or Usernet messages. Learn how you can track down your subect with nothing more than an E-Mail address. You will also be taught the methodology of Internet Profiling, what it is and how it can be an invaluable tool to you. This process is fast becoming a greatly sought after skill by many investigative clients. We all know how computers are shaping the future and the investigative industry is no different. The class is presented from the "how to do it" approach and not clogged with troublesome technical language that the attendees do not need anyway.
As an added bonus, those attending the AIA conference are also eligible to attend an all-day session on firearms and shooting reconstruction by renowed firearms expert and shooting reconstructionist Gaylan Warren of Columbia International Forensics Laboratory at no additional charge. This session will be on Thursday, October 12, also at the Alyeska Resort.
Cost for attendance is $100.00 for AIA members or $150.00 for non-members. To ensure attendance at this unique educational opportunity, complete and return the Registration Form today. The Alyeska Resort is offering a single occupancy rate of $95/night for persons attending the conference. Attendees are responsible for their own hotel reservations. When registering for the conference, mention that you are attending the AIA Conference. For information on accommodations, directions to, or recreational activities at the majestic Alyeska Resort, click on http://www.alyeskaresort.com.
For additional information and updates on the conference, check periodically at www.akinvestigators.com.
SPEAKER PROFILE:
Paul Kulas
Mr. Paul Kulas, the "trap line guy" is owner of Skip Tracy, a high-tech telecommunications company that pioneered the 800 ID trap line. Drawing from his 16-years of experience, he will discuss skip tracing and effective telephone communications and tell us what works and what doesn't. He will explain why some of the techniques are now outdated and need to change and that there are clever and creative techniques for investigations, utilizing subterfuge and disguise that aren't over the top, aren't illegal, and won't get anyone into hot water. He will also tell us about the common mistakes that even the most experienced investigators make. His presentation will end with a question and answer session although he says he is not a lawyer and doesn't give legal advice. He says they advise clients when they feel they're stepping out of bounds or gaining exposure. "We preach techniques whereby you 'vanish', where no one knows you were even there." SPEAKER PROFILE:
Kevin Ripa
Mr. Kevin Ripa is Owner and Director of Computer Evidence Recovery, Inc. He is a recognized industry expert on computer forensics and investigations, identity theft, data security, as well as many other areas of expertise. With the rapid increase of Internet access by millions worldwide, internet investigations are becoming a new frontier in the Investigation Industry. Attendees will learn the basic methods used to identify subscriber information from the hidden part of E-mail or Usenet messages. Learn how you can track down your subect with nothing more than an E-Mail address. You will also be taught the methodology of Internet Profiling, what it is and how it can be an invaluable tool to you. This process is fast becoming a greatly sought after skill by many investigative clients. We all know how computers are shaping the future and the investigative industry is no different. The class is presented from the "how to do it" approach and not clogged with troublesome technical language that the attendees do not need anyway.
2006 Sponsors Advent AMIS Insurance Group Anchorage Area Atlas CMP Services Computer Evidence Recovery, Inc. G&L Transcription Ingens - Public Knowledge Systems Locate Plus Motznik Information Services Outback Steakhouse Paraben PI Marketing Strategies Skip-Tracy Spy Associates Steven Brown of the Mellennial Agency Terry Cook - CAG Guide US Assoc. of Professional Investigators Yergey Insurance
2005 FALL CONFERENCE SPEAKER PROFILE:
Rob Warden
"It’s sort of a myth that we believe as a society, that it is better that a hundred guilty men go free, than that one innocent man suffer. That’s nonsense, it’s really upside down." – Rob Warden
Rob Warden is an award winning legal affairs journalist who, as editor and publisher of Chicago Lawyer magazine during the 1980's, exposed more than a score of wrongful convictions in Illinois, including cases in which six innocent men had been sentenced to death.
Before founding Chicago Lawyer in 1978, Mr. Warden was an investigative reporter, foreign correspondent, and editor at the Chicago Daily News. Since the Chicago Lawyer changed ownership in 1989, Mr. Warden has worked as a political issues consultant, executive officer of the Cook County State’s Attorney's Office, and consultant to various law firms and the litigation department of General Electric Medical Systems.
Mr. Warden is the author or co-author of hundreds of articles and five books, including two books about wrongful convictions written in collaboration with Northwestern University Journalism Professor David Protess - A Promise of Justice - (Hyperion, 1998) and Gone in the Night (Delacorte, 1993).
Mr. Warden has won more than 50 journalism awards, including the Medill School of Journalism’s John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism, two American Civil Liberties Union James McGuire Awards, five Peter Lisagor Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Norval Morris Award from the Illinois Academy of Criminology. In 2004, he was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame.
Mr. Warden is currently the Executive Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at the Northwestern University School of Law. SPEAKER PROFILE:
Jacqueline McMurtrie
Jacqueline McMurtrie is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington School of Law. She teaches criminal law and previously directed the school’s Criminal Law Clinic.
Jackie McMurtrie joined the School of Law in 1989 after a career as a public defender. Before joining the law school faculty, she worked as a staff attorney and supervising attorney for the Seattle-King County Public Defender Association.
Ms. McMurtrie teaches Criminal Law and directs the Innocence Project Northwest Clinic. Since its formation in 1997, IPNW has secured the release of 11 wrongly convicted inmates. McMurtrie received a "President's Award" from the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and a "Pro Bono Award" from the National Law Journal in recognition of her work with IPNW. She is a 2003 and 2001 Washington State "Super Lawyer" and the 2002 recipient of the University of Washington School of Law's Phillip A. Trautman Professor of the Year recognition. She is a member of the Washington State Bar and the Federal Bar, Western District and Eastern District of Washington. She has been a visiting professor at Seattle University School of Law.
SPEAKER PROFILE:
Penny Beerntsen
On July 29, 1985, Penny Beerntsen was brutally attacked, sexually assaulted, and nearly killed on a beach in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. In the emergency room, Ms. Beerntsen was questioned at length about the assault and the physical description of the assailant. That same night, in her hospital room, she identified Steven Avery from a photo array. A few days later she picked him out of a live line up of suspects. Based on her persuasive testimony, Avery was convicted and sentenced to 32 years in prison. Eighteen years later he was exonerated by DNA and released. During his confinement his wife divorced him and his five children grew up, including twin sons who were just days old when he was incarcerated.
Ms. Beerntsen has been active in the restorative justice movement on the local and state levels for approximately fifteen years. She helped establish the Sexual Assault Resource Center in her hometown, has advocated for both victim and offender rights and has facilitated numerous victim/offender mediations, including those involving crimes of severe violence. Beerntsen served on Wisconsin’s Crime Victims Rights Board from its formation in 1999 until moving to Illinois in 2004. While Ms. Beerntsen acknowledges that she will always be known as the woman who wrongfully accused Steven Avery of being her assailant; she hopes she will also be privileged to play some role in lessening the likelihood that his will happen to someone else.
Beerntsen and her husband, Tom, who had run a longtime family candy store in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, where they both lived at the time of the assault on Penny, now make their home in suburban Chicago.
Anchorage Area Atlas BRB Publications Crime Time Publishing Dr. Henry Lee INGENS - Public Knowledge Systems Intelius Kenai Fjord Tours Land End MOTZNIK Information Services TGI Friday's
2004 FALL CONFERENCE AN ALL STAR LINEUP TAPPED FOR INVESTIGATOR’S CONFERENCE Dr. Whitehurst investigated, uncovered and reported the scientific misconduct which forced the FBI crime lab to agree to forty major reforms, including undergoing an accreditation process. Dr. Whitehurst received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Duke University, a J.D. from Georgetown University and joined the FBI in 1982 and served as a Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI crime lab from 1986-98. While employed by the FBI crime lab, the FBI officially rated Dr. Whitehurst as the leading national and international expert in the science of explosives and explosives residue. The past ten years have seen terrifying revelations about failures in forensic crime labs across the United States. These stories started with revelations about the famed FBI crime lab in Washington, D.C. and now seem to show up on a monthly if not weekly basis in state and federal crime labs. Born of a lack of external independent oversight and carried on the shoulders of a criminal justice system that either ignores or actively conceals issues within crime labs, this problem has festered for years. Dr. Whitehurst's presentation will be directed first at raising awareness of the problems of which many in the justice system are still ignorant and then provide insight and instruction into exposing and addressing these issues. The title of his talk is “Videri quam esse (To Seem Rather Than To Be), The Modern Forensic Crime Lab.” Rick Hernandez retired after many years of service as a polygraph examiner and trainer for the Anchorage Police Department. He owns and operates Polygraph Unlimited, providing investigative and polygraph examination services to individuals, attorneys and companies in Alaska. He will be providing an overview and demonstration of the polygraph. The Alaska Investigator’s Conference is provided for the benefit of investigators statewide who wish to sharpen their skills in a wide variety of disciplines, and for members of the general public interested in the fields of investigation and forensic science. It is also an opportunity for members of the Alaska Investigators Association to hold their annual business meeting and discuss issues of current interest. Cost of the conference, which is open to the public, is $125.00 at the door. Registration starts at 8 a.m. Persons wishing more information about, or to register for the conference can go to the AIA website at www.akinvestigators.com or call Deborah Jones at (907)441-2309. CRIME TIME PUBLISHING CO. INGENS - Public Knowledge Systems KENAI FJORDS TOURS MOTZNIK Information Services OUTBACK Steakhouse
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