- Office of Attorney General Maura Healey
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Emalie Gainey
Boston — This week, Attorney General Maura Healey’s Office hosted the fourth annual National Cyber Crime Conference, the only multi-day conference of its kind aimed at training law enforcement in digital evidence. This year, more than 600 law enforcement officers, prosecutors and investigators attended the three-day conference.
“The digitized world that we live in presents both challenges and opportunities to law enforcement,” said AG Healey. “Virtually every crime committed these days has a digital component and the trainings provided at this conference help us keep pace with the criminals who exploit technology to commit crimes. We would like to express our gratitude to all of the speakers, presenters, partners and sponsors who have made this one-of-a-kind conference possible.”
AG Healey delivered the opening remarks on Monday and stressed the importance of understanding and analyzing digital evidence to help combat cyber crime.
Howard A. Schmidt, who currently serves as a partner in the strategic advisory firm, the Ridge-Schmidt Cyber, delivered the keynote address. Schmidt most recently served as Special Assistant to the President and the Cybersecurity Coordinator for the United States. His former White House appointments include Cyber Advisor to Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
Other featured speakers included Majid Hassan, who specializes in presenting counterterrorism seminars for personnel in local and national law enforcement agencies. Serrin Turner, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, who spearheaded the investigation and prosecution that led to the conviction of the founder and operator of the Silk Road website, also spoke.
Brianna Wu, head of development at Giant Spacekat and a well-known public speaker on issues affecting women in technology, provided examples of harassment directed at her and other women in the industry and law enforcement’s response.
More than 600 law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and investigators from across the nation attended the conference, with 40 states, Canada, and Trinidad & Tobago being represented by attendees. Law enforcement, prosecutors, and investigators attended from, among many others, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Coast Guard, Massachusetts State Police, Boston Police Department, and district attorney’s offices and police departments across the country.
The three-day conference consisted of multiple breakout sessions of labs, lectures, and certification programs in which attendees were trained on a wide range of topics pertaining to digital forensic analysis, including mobile device forensics, decryption, and the newest analytic software. Attendees learned how to identify and analyze evidence from basic mobile devices, iPhones and other Apple products, GPS devices, DVRs, gaming consoles and from the “Cloud.”
Other seminars addressed social networks, Islamic terrorism and technology, human trafficking and Backpage.com, and child pornography investigations. Seminars to improve the prosecution of cybercrimes were also provided, as was a panel on judicial perspectives on digital evidence. More than 90 speakers conducted the various sessions.
The conference was hosted by the AG’s Office in partnership with the National Attorneys General Training & Research Institute, Microsoft, the National White Collar Crime Center, and SEARCH. The following exhibitors also participated in the conference: MSAB Corporation, Paraben Corporation, Teel Technologies, SRT Wireless, Cellebrite, DME Forensics, Pen-Link, Nuix, Magnet Forensics, ARC Group of New York, Silicon Forensics, HTCI EDAS FOX, Sumuri, SysTools Software, Guidance Software, Navigant and University College Dublin.
The AG’s Office has long made the prevention and prosecution of cyber crime a priority. The Office has a state-of-the-art Digital Evidence Lab in Boston, which has statewide capacity to deal with cyber crime and more efficiently process digital evidence that is present in virtually every investigation. The AG’s Office has provided cyber training for more than 15,000 state and local law enforcement personnel from across the Commonwealth and the nation.
A list of participating agencies and police departments include:
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12th Judicial District - Arkansas |
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Abington Police Department |
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Acton Police Department |
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Alaska Department of Law |
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Amherst Police Department |
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Anoka County Sheriff's Office |
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AR AGO - Special Investigations Division |
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Arkansas Attorney General's Office |
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Arlington Commonwealth's Attorney's Office |
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Arlington Police Department |
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Ashland Police Department |
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Athol Police Department |
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Attleboro Police Department |
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AZ AGO - Criminal Division |
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Babson College Police Department |
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Barnstable County Sheriff |
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Bergen Co. Prosecutor's Office |
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Boston College Police Department |
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Boston Police - USSS NEECTF |
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Boston Police Department |
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Boston Police Department HTU |
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Boston Regional Intelligence Center |
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Bourne Police Department |
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Braintree Police Department |
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Brewster Police Department |
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Bridgeport Police Department |
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Bridgewater Police Department |
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Bristol County District Attorney's Office |
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Brookline Police Department |
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Bureau of Investigations, OCC, DEP |
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Cambridge Police Department |
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Camden County Prosecutor's Office |
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Cape and Islands District Attorney's Office |
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Cedar Rapids Police Department |
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Chelsea Police Department |
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Chicago Police Department |
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Coast Guard Investigative Service |
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Concord Police Department |
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Cook County State's Attorney's Office |
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Cranston Police Department |
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Danvers Police Department |
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DEA |
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Dedham Police Department |
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DOD Criminal Investigative Service |
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Delaware Attorney General's Office |
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Dennis Police Department |
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Department of Defense |
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Department of Defense FFRDC/ Security Services Department |
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Digital Forensics Unit |
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District Court - Newark, NJ |
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Dracut Police Department |
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Duxbury Police Department |
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Eagan Police Department |
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East Bridgewater Police Department |
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England Police Department |
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Erving Police Department |
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Essex County District Attorney's Office |
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Essex County Prosecutor's Office |
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Falmouth Police Department |
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FBI |
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Federal Reserve Bank of Boston |
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Fort Lauderdale Police Department |
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Foxborough Police Department |
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Gardner Police Department |
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Georgia Attorney General's Office |
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Hampden County District Attorney's Office |
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Hanson Police Department |
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Harvard University Police Department |
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Harwich Police Department |
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Hawaii Department of the Attorney General |
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Hillsborough County Attorney's Office |
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Hinsdale Police Department |
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Holliston Police Department |
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Homeland Security Investigations |
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Hopkinton Police Department |
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Indiana State Police - Criminal Investigation |
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Ipswich Police Department |
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Lafayette Parish Sherriff's Office |
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Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department |
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MA Environmental Police - AGO |
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MA State Police |
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Maine Attorney General's Office |
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Maine State Police |
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Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit |
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Malden Police Department |
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Manchester Police Department |
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Mansfield Police Department |
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Marlborough Police Department |
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Maryland Attorney General's Office |
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Mass. Digital Evidence Consortium |
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Massachusetts Attorney General's Office |
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Massachusetts State Police |
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Massachusetts State Police - AGO |
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Maynard Police Department |
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Medford Police Department |
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Medway Police Department |
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Merrimack County Attorney's Office |
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Middlesex District Attorney's Office |
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Middlesex Sheriff's Office |
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Midlothian Police Department |
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Missouri Attorney General's Office |
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Montreal Police Department |
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Nahant Police Department |
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Nashua Police Department |
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Natick Police Department |
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National Computer Forensics Institute |
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NCMEC - Child Victim Identification Program |
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NCMEC - Exploited Children's Division |
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Nebraska Attorney General's Office |
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Needham Police Department |
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New England State Police Information Network - IT |
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New Hampshire Attorney General's Office |
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New Hampshire State Police |
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New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice |
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New Jersey State Police |
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New Mexico Attorney General's Office |
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New York AGO |
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New York City Police Department |
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New York State Police |
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NH Attorney General's Office |
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NJ Office of the Attorney General |
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NJ Office of the Attorney General - Law Division |
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Norfolk County District Attorney's Office |
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Norfolk Police Department |
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North Adams Police Department |
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North Attleboro Police Department |
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North Carolina Secretary of State |
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North Reading Police Department |
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Northampton Police Department |
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Northborough Police Department |
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Northwestern District Attorney's Office |
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Norwood Police Department |
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NYC Sheriff's Office - Bureau of Criminal Investigation |
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NYS Department of Law |
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Office of Special Narcotics Prosecutor - New York City |
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Office of the District Attorney Tenth Judicial District |
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Office of the Grafton County Attorney |
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Peabody Police Department |
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Pepperell Police Department |
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Plymouth County Sheriff's Department |
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Providence Police Department |
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Quincy Police Department |
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Randolph Police Department |
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Revere Police Department |
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Rhode Island State Police |
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RI ICAC |
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Salt Lake City Justice - Main Division |
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Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office |
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San Diego ICAC |
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SC AGO - Internet Crimes Against Children |
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Seattle Police Department |
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Seekonk Police Department |
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Sixth Judicial Circuit |
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Somerville Police Department |
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South Carolina Law Enforcement Division |
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South Dakota Attorney General's Office |
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Springfield Police Department |
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St. Louis County Police |
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State Police Detective Unit - Hampshire/Franklin |
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Stow Police Department |
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Strategic Services Agency - Ministry of National Security |
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Suffolk County DA - District Court & Community Prosecutor |
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Suffolk County DA - BMC Central Division |
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Suffolk County DA - Child Protection Unit |
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Suffolk County DA - Juvenile Unit |
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Suffolk County DA - Major Felony Unit |
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Suffolk County DA - Special Prosecutions |
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Suffolk County District Attorney's Office |
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Surete du Quebec, Cybercrime Unit |
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Tampa International Airport Police |
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Taunton Police Department |
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Templeton Police Department |
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Texas Attorney General's Office |
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Truro Police Department |
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U.S. Pretrial Services |
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United States Navy |
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United States Probation Department |
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US Department of Education OIG |
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US Dept. of Homeland Security USCG |
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Utah State Bureau of Investigation |
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Uxbridge Police Department |
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Vancouver Police Department |
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Vermont Attorney General's Office |
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Virginia State Police |
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Walpole Police Department |
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Waltham Police Department |
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Washington State Patrol |
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Waterbury Police Department |
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Wellesley Police Department |
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West Newbury Police Department |
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Westbrook Police Department |
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Weymouth Police Department |
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Wilmington Police Department |
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Wisconsin Department of Justice |
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Woburn Police Department |
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Worcester Police Department |
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Wrentham Police Department |
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