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Online ZOOM LIVE class; Digital Evidence and Cybercrime: Legal Issues for the Police Officer

2025-10-07
ONLINE WITH ZOOM FORMAT

Instructor: Hon. Elspeth B. Cypher (ret).

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From 9:00am to 3:00pm
Registration: 9:00am

Instructor: Hon. Elspeth B. Cypher (ret).

Hon. Elspeth B. Cypher (ret.)  served as an Associate Justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 2017 until January 2024. She served on the Massachusetts Appeals Court from 2000 to 2017. She received a B.A. from Emerson College in 1980 and a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in 1986, where she served on the Suffolk University Law Review.  She worked in a small general practice and as prosecutor. She has extensive teaching experience, most recently as the Huber Distinguished Visiting Professor at Boston College Law School.  She is a frequent panelist for the National Cybercrime Conference.  She is the current author of the Massachusetts Practice Series, Criminal Practice and Procedure, Volumes 30, 30A, and 30B. 

 

The seminar will run from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

The cost for this online seminar will be $225.00 per person. 

The digital era brings new challenges to police work. Learn about the seizure and search of electronic devices and use of digital evidence in investigations and in court.

This course provides an overview of the unique legal issues for the police officer when investigating crime in a cyber world. We will examine the application of Massachusetts and federal law as applied to the seizure and search of electronic devices, including search warrants and exceptions to the warrant requirement. 

Learn how to prepare an affidavit in support of a search warrant for digital evidence.

We will discuss the quickly evolving cases relevant to Massachusetts police work.

Computers and tablets

GPS Monitoring         

Cell phones    

Tower Dumps

Social media

Digital Surveillance

Pole Cameras

Cloud Computing

Property crimes and computer misuse

Obscenity and Child Sexual Abuse Materials

Spyware, Adware, Malware, Phishing, Spam, Identity Theft

Cyberbullying, threats, stalking, harassment, and defamation

Biometrics & Passcodes

Facial Recognition

Geo “fences”

CSLI

Shotspotters

ALPR

The” internet of things”

Storage of digital evidence

Authenticating digital evidence

Deep Fakes and Artificial Intelligence

Consent and its scope

Preservation Letters

Functional Approach to analyzing search and seizure law

Forensic extraction

Keyword Searches

When can you “ping” a cell phone?

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» Offline registration: pheagney@policelegacy.com or call 508-989-9848
» Cost: $225 USD per official.