Provided by Safer Schools Together. By engaging with popular social media applications, you will learn how to find and document worrisome digital media content originating from your school community. This training will solidify your understanding of how to effectively use DTA® as a critical part of any modern-day Threat Assessment

DIGITAL THREAT ASSESSMENT® Full-day training session Digital Threat Assessment® (DTA) teaches participants to establish a Digital Behavioral Baseline through a School Safety / Threat Assessment (SS/TA) lens. By engaging with popular social media applications, you will learn how to find and document worrisome digital content originating from your school community. This training solidifies your understanding of how to effectively use DTA as a critical part of any modern-day Threat Assessment. 

You will learn how to find individuals who are the subject of your threat assessment and document your research findings. 

Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Virtual
Instructors: Safer Schools Together
Cost: FREE
Target Audience: This training is appropriate for anyone involved in school safety including but not limited to educators, administrators, IT directors, mental health professionals, law enforcement officers, security, facility managers, and school resource officers.
Pre-Requisites: Please refer to Requirements listed at the end of this page
Zoom Link & Course Materials: You will be emailed the zoom link and the materials by Aug. 16th. If you do not receive the link by then, please email the [email protected].
Max Capacity: 100
Registration Deadline: August 8, 2024

YOU WILL LEARN: 

Application of Digital Threat Assessment® theoretical foundations 

• How the fundamental principles of Behavioral Threat Assessment apply to online digital data 

• Best practices for documenting and preserving crucial digital data 

• How to search within Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat 

How to utilize the power of search engines and all investigative tools 

• To engage the power of Google and use Boolean search operator 

• How to configure Google Alerts for ongoing research 

• About the role of cached data in online research work

Online verification and authentication of images 

• To use online tools to determine whether a photo/image is likely unique or stock 

• How to screen capture and document online content for both evidentiary and school safety purposes 

• How to work with social media companies and utilize law enforcement guides to request user identifying information

Privacy 

• The difference between personal, professional, and research accounts 

• Consider privacy and policy implications of online research account use 

• To protect and safeguard your personal information online 

• To recognize the wealth of information that tech giants maintain about users (Google, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc.)

The current state of affairs in social media: A safe school perspective 

• What we see from a local, national, and North American lens 

• How social media continues to impact the safety, culture, and climate of our schools 

• To establish a digital behavioral baseline and assessing the language of online threats 

• How to crowdsource localized and time relevant social media posts from your school and geographical area 

• To recognize the signs and implications of general vs. inordinate knowledge, including information on INCELs, doxing, swatting, and the dark web

PLEASE SEE PRE-REQUISITES BELOW:

ELECTRONIC DEVICES:  As this training involves a lot of hands-on exercises, you will need to bring your own device. We recommend the following: apart from a PC, Laptops/Microsoft Surface Pro, MacBook, or Google Chromebooks will work the best. Tablets are not compatible with some aspects of the training and searching capabilities are restricted with iPads.You should also make sure that devices are fully charged and ready to go. 

If you are bringing a police or district provided laptop, please ensure you do not have any firewalls on your device that could block you from accessing the following websites during the training: 

http://archive.org

www.Dropbox.com

https://www.familytreenow.com

https://gadwin.com/download/

https://www.gadwin.com

https://getgreenshot.org/

www.google.com

www.instagram.com

https://www.instafollowers.co

https://osintframework.com/

https://protonmail.com/

https://www.psstworld.com/

https://saferschoolstogether.com                            

https://map.snapchat.com

https://slnt.com/

https://www.search.org

https://www.snopes.com

https://www.social-searcher.com

https://www.spokeo.com

https://tagdef.com/en/

https://thatsthem.com

https://www.truepeoplesearch.com

https://www.tiktok.com/

https://tineye.com/

https://www.urbandictionary.com/

https://whatsmyname.app/

https://www.hubspot.com/

SPECIAL NOTE FOR ATTENDEES:  

REQUIRED: All DTA attendees must arrive at the training with the following already set up and completed:
An alias Instagram account set up (using your personal accounts is NOT recommended).
Snapchat and Twitter will also be discussed and familiarity with and/or an alias account for those apps will be helpful.

NOTE: If multiple team members are attending from the same school/department/unit, one account can be created for each of the above platforms and the username/password can be shared between you and your team members (except Snapchat which can only be operated on one phone on one account at once). It is never advised to login to these threat assessment team accounts on your personal device.

We, at the Center for School Safety, are ADA compliant.  If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please call Mary Pupazzoni at (203) 837-8915 or email [email protected] and cc:  [email protected] by July 30, 2024.