2010 KCJIS TRAINING CONFERENCE
June 28 & 29, 2010
Grand Prairie Hotel, Hutchinson, Kansas

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Keynote Presentation:  Managing Your Time & Your Life, Rich Drinon
	The Biggest Challenge We Face Today: Focus vs. Multi-Tasking The Four Most Important Habits You Can Cultivate: Order, Priority, Time, Place The Future of Time Management
Practicing Intelligent Time Management:  Rich Drinon
	Following the Pathway to Personal Productivity Applying the Pattern of Personal Productivity Using the Primary Tools of Personal Productivity
Improving Intuitive Time Management:  Rich Drinon
	Understanding How to Access the Zone or Optimal Performance States Recognizing the Role of Intuition in Managing Your Time & Your Life Training Yourself to Work & Live in Optimal Performance States
MOCIC:  Charlie Armentrout
	The Mid-States Organized Crime Information Center®  is a federally funded law enforcement assistance program that provides services and benefits to members in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, as well as parts of Canada.  Services, in part, include an intelligence database, covert equipment, analytical services, and cash.
Improving public safety by sharing information:  Bill Roth
	Sharing information is critical to public safety as our citizens move across county and state boundaries and from one law enforcement area to another.  The nation is moving toward a better way to share information so that we able to better serve our citizens. This session will provide you the concepts on sharing information across jurisdictions, how we define data that is sharable and some major upcoming efforts that might impact the information that you can provide or might need access to.
The Impact of Social Networking on Law Enforcement:  Robyn Goss
	This class covers a multitude of social networking sites currently in use world-wide.  The instructor will show how networking sites can benefit both law enforcement officers and their agencies by enhancing background investigations, assisting with criminal investigations and assisting officers with personal safety and security.  With information obtained from networking sites making its way into courtrooms as evidence for and against officers, the instructor will provide current cases effecting law enforcement.
Kansas Open Records Act and CHI:  Jeff Cowger
	The Kansas Open Records Act (KORA) statutorily proclaims a public policy of open inspection of government records with liberal construction of the Act to that end.  However, the Kansas legislature has identified conflicting interests through exceptions both specified in KORA as well as through the incorporation of other statutory provisions.  This session examines those exceptions with particular emphasis on Criminal History Information.
KIBRS Update:  Janelle Zeiler
	This session is an overview of the Kansas Incident Based Reporting System.  We will review common errors in reporting at the state and national level, statutory requirements, and the history of incident based reporting. Agencies are encouraged to participate in this semi-open forum to discuss the submission of incident and arrest data to the IBR Section.  Examples of reporting issues that will be discussed are; forgery, criminal use of financial card, and theft offenses.
Crime Laboratory:  Michael J Van Stratton
	The collection of physical evidence, crime scene documentation and the analysis of evidence at the crime laboratory are critical in reconstructing the events of the crime.  This session will discuss how crime scene evidence was used to assist the investigators in reconstructing the events of the crime.  This session is not for those who may be uneasy at the sight of blood, as some portions of the presentation are graphic in nature.
Digital Forensics:  Tim Lane
	This presentation will define digital forensics for the attendees and will describe how they are used by investigator.  The benefits and technical advances in digital forensics will be discussed including uses that are often overlooked ways.  Real life cases in which digital forensics produced key evidence will be presented.
Common Reporting Errors:  Leslie Moore and Sheri Sharp
	The most common errors in reporting arrest fingerprint cards, summons fingerprint cards and disposition reports will be discussed.  The user will learn how to correctly report those issues.
The Process of Continuity of Operations Planning:  Dan Swearingen
	Continuity of Operations (COOP) or Business Continuity Management is a management process that identifies potential impacts that threaten an organization’s functional capabilities and provides a framework for building resilience and the ability for an effective response and possible recovery, if required.  Continuity of Operations should be fully integrated into the organization as an embedded management process.  Because an organization’s resilience depends on its operational staff and management as well as technology and geographical diversity, this resilience should be developed throughout the organization.
NLETS:  Tariq Azmi
	The International Justice & Public Network is a computer-based message switching system that links local, state, federal law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies together for information exchange worldwide.  The presentation covers a brief history, purpose and current projects under way at NLETS.  Attendees will gain a better understanding of how NLETS impacts the vital role their local law enforcement agency has in their community.
Dispositional Reporting:  Leslie Moore and Sheri Sharp
	In this session the user will learn how to correctly fill out a Kansas Adult Disposition Report (KADR) and Kansas Juvenile Disposition Report (KJDR).
Open Fox Messenger Synopsis:  Javier Barajas
	Kansas Bureau of Investigation currently supports the OpenFox Messenger software as a provider of the Kansas Criminal Justice Information System communications.  Messenger provides the ability to enter, query and maintain databases that are continuously updated by local law enforcement and other members of the KCJIS community.  This class will provide you the opportunity to gain a better understanding of how to perform needed tasks as a KCJIS user.  We will touch on the most frequently used message keys as well as others that may be helpful. The session will end with what the future holds for Messenger and other tools provided by OpenFox
AFIS Update:  Lisa Parrish
	Users will learn about AFIS messages and AFIS daily reports – what they are, what they mean, and how to use them.  Topics covered include:  how to correct a livescan submission, applicant submissions and how to submitted them correctly, and palm prints and the law that requires them.
Implementing GIS in KCJIS:  Ivan Weichert
	Find out what the State of Kansas is doing to assist entities with acquiring and sharing sets of data such as property records, road centerlines and addresses, aerial photography, topography, political boundaries, etc.  Numerous sets of data are stored at the Data Access and Support Center in Lawrence, Kansas, and most of these data can be downloaded to use in a Geographic Information System and tied to your own entity's databases.  Associating precise location data with your business data can provide powerful analysis and decision making tools.
FORENSIC DENTISTRY & Upcoming NCIC Training for Dental and Law Enforcement Personnel:  Col (Dr) Jay G. Sekavec, USAF, Ret.
	This presentation will provide an overview of the field of forensic dentistry/forensic odontology.  Topics discussed will include a brief history, identification by dental means, techniques, medical adjuncts, bite mark analysis, role in mass casualty/disaster situations, sensitive issues and dental-law enforcement interface.  Actual cases will be presented and discussed.  Also, the new initiative of dental input into the NCIC regarding missing persons and wanted individuals will be addressed vis-à-vis law enforcement oversight and support.
Archive & Retrieval:  Tariq Azmi
	Archive & Retrieval (A & R) enables TAC’s to search transaction logs/log history for their agency.  A & R tool has the flexibility to perform a search with one field identifier or up to 30 different field identifiers.  It also allows wild card searches. The A & R search capability is only available to those agencies that have migrated to Open Fox Messenger and have generated some traffic.  The traffic from other applications (Datamax or PsPortals or CAD) cannot viewed using A & R tool. A & R database has the capability to hold 7 years worth of data as required by NCIC.
KCJIS Web Portal Synopsis:  Javier Barajas
	The Kansas Criminal Justice Information System Web Portal is a secure web site for use by authorized criminal justice users.  Authorized personnel can perform person or vehicle searches against the KCJIS databases, drivers’ license photo searches, check security policies, track meth cases and a number of other useful tasks to assists in the support of sworn Law Enforcement Personnel.  This class will provide a chance for users ask questions, gain a better understanding or perhaps experience a first look at the KCJIS Web Portal and what it has to offer.
Data Quality NCIC Audits: Larry Warders
	This presentation will describe exactly what the local agency TAC or designee should be doing when making a record entry and compiling documentation in the supporting case files.  It documents the pre-audit preparation by an auditor and directly equates the audit with an agency’s responsibilities.  The auditor will know exactly what he/she is going to find in or out of compliance as everything is either archived in the message switch logs or is shown in the quality of the record entries in NCIC and the Kansas Warrant file.
Agency Administrator Liability for NCIC & KS Warrant File Records: Larry Warders
	This presentation covers the liabilities for data entered into NCIC and the Kansas Warrant file by local agencies.  Several real life cases are referenced to help administrators understand that they are held accountable for the records their agency has entered.  Also covered is how the data from the two records systems might be misused in making unlawful arrests or seizures and the subsequent liability incurred by the agency administrator.
Securing the Nation's Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources: Chuck Clanahan
	To provide a closer partnership with state governments, local communities, and businesses, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has placed a national presence, Protective Security Advisors (PSAs), in local communities throughout the country to assist with local efforts to protect critical assets.  PSAs provide a federal resource to communities and businesses to assist in the protection of our Nation's critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) and further State and local homeland security initiatives.  CIKR’s are what we deem most crucial in terms of national level public health and safety, governance, economic and national security, and public confidence consequences.  PSA Chuck Clanahan will discuss key elements of the PSA program and DHS resources.
KASPER: Shlomo Ginsburg
	Kansas Adult Supervised Population Electronic Repository is a KDOC web site designed to disseminate information about offenders and other information related to criminal justice.  This course consists of a presentation and hands-on training which presents KASPER’s scope and options, with emphasis on how to conduct an effective offender search.  In addition, various types of responses and the information returned in an offender search will be discussed.
Correctional Intelligence: Roger Bonner
	“Correctional Intelligence” gives a brief overview of the Kansas Department of Corrections Enforcement, Apprehensions, and Investigations Division and discusses the ways intelligence information is mined at a correctional facility.  The presentation includes a short demonstration of how correctional information systems can provide information useful to other agencies, and ends with a discussion on the intelligence available from the division’s Field Operations. Questions and discussions are encouraged in this class. .
National Crime Information Center (NCIC) Known or Appropriately Suspected Terrorist File : Dave Bossard
	This session is information on the National Crime Information Center’s Known or Appropriately Suspected Terrorist File.  Originally created as part of the Violent Gang / Terrorist Organization File (VGTOF) until 2009, the Terrorist File now is limited to Terrorist records.  This block of instruction covers definitions of “terrorist groups” and “terrorist members” and reiterates that the Terrorist Screening Center is the only entity with authority to enter terrorist records into NCIC.  The course explains the Terrorist Handling Codes, which provide operational guidance for an agency that gets a Positive Response from the File when conducting a Wanted Person inquiry.
NCIC ID Theft File: Dave Bossard
	This lecture/discussion presentation is designed to provide overview information regarding the National Crime Information Center’s Identity Theft File.  A video illustrates a scenario that shows an identity theft incident (stolen purse) that leads the victim to report the theft to law enforcement.  After NCIC entry of the victim data, a subsequent encounter between law enforcement and the impersonator leads to an NCIC inquiry and further follow-up.  Attendees will learn the mandatory entry fields, receive an explanation of the consent waiver and password, and will review various types of identity theft which can be entered in the system.  Resources provided include the video, which is suitable for patrol, detective, and communications personnel roll call training.
Kansas Offender Registration Requirements:  Larry Warders / Nicole A. Musquiz
	This session is an overview of the Kansas Offender Registration requirements.  We will discuss the KBI Offender Registration unit, the Kansas Offender Registration Act and the Kansas Offender Registration form.  Agencies are encouraged to participate in this semi-open forum to discuss registration requirements, procedures and training.  Examples of offender registration that will be discussed are: duration of registration, registered offender DL/ID, the KBI Offender Registry website, the Offender Registration Working Group and Kansas Offender Registration contact information.
Kansas Intelligence System (KIS):  Greg Edson / Kelly Ralston
	The Kansas Intelligence System (KIS) is a multi-jurisdictional, 28 CFR compliant intelligence system administered by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.  This system is available to participating agencies to utilize for the organization of their intelligence data, or the sharing of that data between agencies.  KIS is available to agencies that have signed an MOU with the KBI and is free of cost.  This class will provide an overview of the system and allow time for a question and answer session.
Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF): Michael R Miller
	Special Agent Michael R. Miller will talk about the mission of the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), our priority objectives, resources and tools available, member agencies, and how the FBI collects and disseminates intelligence.
Reentry Policy Council (RPC):  Marilyn Scafe / Hope Cooper
	The Reentry Policy Council (RPC) was established in 2001 to assist state government officials grappling with the increasing number of people leaving prisons and jails to return to the communities they left behind. Marilyn will discuss ongoing goals and activities of the council and provide a question and answer session.
DNA Databank: John Gauntt
	The presentation is an overview of the DNA Databank.  John will describe the Databank’s purpose and scope, its changes over the years, and some tips for Kansas contributing agencies and how they can help the Databank.  He will include some interesting success stories of CODIS hits in the past couple years.
Kansas Consumer Act: Angela Wilson
	As the economy struggles, law enforcement is likely to see an increase in scams and frauds perpetrated against consumers.  Many of these scams and frauds are criminal acts and can be pursued as theft cases, however some scams are less clearly criminal in nature, and the protection offered by the Kansas Consumer Protection Act may provide a remedy for some consumers.  This overview will help attendees to understand the basic tenets of the KCPA and how it may apply to transactions they investigate.
Differences in CSO, CC, Parole Services and Interstate Compact: Keven Pellant
	The class will describe the differences in Court Services, Community Corrections and Parole Services as well as Interstate Compact offenders.  Keven will also talk about the law enforcement initiatives and other community outreach programs used by the Department of Corrections.
Technical Security Audit: Bob Eckhardt
	Technical Security Audits coming to an agency near you.  Find out the Who, What, Where, When, and Why.  Get the information needed to help get your agency ready.  We will discuss the audit process, time frames, how to prepare, forms involved, etc.

Location

Ramada Inn 420 SE 6th Ave Topeka, Kansas (800-432-2424)

Visit the Ramada Inn website to make reservations. www.topekaramada.com

Contact Information

Bill Noll, Conference Chairman	Conference/Registration Inquires	Gordon Lansford, KCJIS Director
billn@doc.ks.gov	kcjis2009@doc.ks.gov	gordon.lansford@da.ks.gov
	785-296-1136	785-633-7700

Speakers Biographies

Charlie Armentrout
MOCIC
     Charlie Armentrout served 6 years in the military police of the US Army while stationed in Colorado, Germany, California and Korea.  He then went to work at the Garden City Police Department in1970 remaining there until his retirement in December 2002.  During his tenure at the Garden City PD, Charlie worked his way up through the ranks from patrolman to Commander.  It was during this time that Charlie began working with MOCIC.  Upon retirement from Garden City PD, Charlie began a new career working for MOCIC as a field coordinator.

Tariq Azmi
NLETS and Archive and Retrieval
Tariq Azmi has been with KBI Communication Unit as a Network Control Technician – III since February, 2007.  He has been involved in all phases of the Open Fox Messenger and Archive & Retrieval testing, implementation and deployment phases.  Tariq comes to KBI with 5 years of experience in the Information Technology field and 7 years of Customer Service experience.  Tariq earned a bachelor’s degree from Southwestern College in Computer Science and Business Quality Management.

Javier Barajas
Open Fox Messenger Synopsis
KCJIS Web Portal Synopsis
Javier has been serving the Kansas Bureau of Investigation Help Desk as a NCT III since June of 2007. His involvement with the Open Fox software includes testing, implementing and deploying the messenger software. Additionally, he provided training sessions available to all KCJIS users. Javier has spent the last 9 years supporting Information Technology customers.

Roger Bonner
Correctional Intelligence
     Roger Bonner began his career with the Kansas Department of Corrections in 1983 at what was then the Kansas State Penitentiary.  He worked in a variety of positions until going into the Intelligence and Investigations Section in 1989.  In 1999 Roger became supervisor of that section and in 2005 promoted to Chief Investigator, working out of the Central Office in Topeka.  Due to a recent consolidation of all prison intelligence and investigation sections, Roger now supervises all of those units as Deputy Director - Facility Operations for the Enforcement, Apprehensions, and Investigations Division.  Roger is on the executive board of the National Major Gang Task Force and serves as secretary for the Kansas Gang Investigators Association.  Roger holds a master’s degree in criminal justice. .

David C. Bossard
National Crime Information Center Terrorist File
National Crime Information Center ID Theft File
     David Bossard worked for twenty years in a Sheriff's Department in Western North Carolina, leaving the Department in 1994 as a Captain. His experience included work in communications, patrol, detective, drug enforcement, personnel, and administrative divisions.  He has spent the past 13 years working as a Training Instructor for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, based in Clarksburg, West Virginia.  In 2003, he received the Assistant Director's Award for "Excellence in Furthering the Interests of US National Security", and in 2008 he was a recipient of the Director’s Award for “Distinguished Service to the Law Enforcement Community”.  David is a member of the North Carolina Retired Peace Officers Association, and the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association.  Current program responsibilities include the National Crime Information Center, and related projects.

Chuck Clanahan
Securing the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure & Key Resources
     Chuck Clanahan serves as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Protective Security Advisor (PSA) for the Kansas District. Mr. Clanahan supports Kansas homeland security efforts, serving in an advisory and reach-back capacity for the State Homeland Security Advisor. He contributes to the development of the national risk picture by assisting with the identification, assessment, monitoring, and minimizing of risk to critical assets at the local level. Mr. Clanahan has over 27 years experience in Law Enforcement, Security, Tactical & Antiterrorism Operations, Crisis Management, and Incident/Accident Response & Recovery Operations in a combination of both Federal and military service. As a PSA, Mr. Clanahan facilitates, coordinates, and performs vulnerability assessments for Critical Infrastructures & Key Resources (CIKR), and acts as a physical and technical security advisor to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. Mr. Clanahan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice and is a graduate of the 208th FBI National Academy.

Hope Cooper
Reentry Policy Council (RPC)
Hope Cooper has worked in the Criminal Justice/Human Service field for 11 years.  Her experiences ranged from a therapist for a residential treatment facility to Program Director for the Day Reporting Center.  Hope graduated from Chadron State College with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Criminal Justice and a Master of Arts in Community Counseling.  Hope provides oversight, technical assistance and training to local Community Corrections agencies across Kansas.

Jeff Cowger
Kansas Open Records Act and CHI
Jeff Cowger is the Deputy General Counsel for the Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority.  Prior to that Jeff worked as an attorney with the Kansas Department of Corrections, had a “sabbatical” stint as a high school band director and was in private practice specializing in criminal law.  Jeff has a Bachelor in Psychology from the University of Kansas, a Bachelor of Science in Instrumental Music Education from Missouri Western University and a Juris Doctor from Washburn University School of Law.  Living in Topeka with his wife and three daughters, Jeff enjoys annoying his neighbors by practicing the bagpipes in his spare time.

Rich Drinon
Managing Your Time and Your Life
Practicing Intelligent Time Management
Improving Intuitive Time Management
Rich Drinon helps people with leadership communication and organizational issues.  Over the past 25 years he conducted thousands of training and coaching sessions with companies, associations, government entities and individuals throughout the U.S. and Canada.  Rich has served in a variety of local, national and international leadership positions in the workplace as well as in civic, church and community organizations.  He is currently President of Drinon & Associates, Inc.   A University of New Mexico journalism graduate, his articles on business, music and sports have appeared in numerous publications.  He is currently working on his Master’s Degree in Leadership Communication from Gonzaga University and on his first leadership book for a New England publisher.  His radio program, “On the Way Up!” is broadcast daily on WIBW 580 AM radio.   He will be talking about how to manage your life through both intelligent and intuitive approaches to time management.   

Bob Eckhardt
Technical Security Audit
Bob works in the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Unit of the Kansas Highway Patrol.  With his assignment to this unit in 1997, Bob was initially tasked with the responsibility of assisting with the design and implementation of the new Kansas Criminal Justice Information System (KCJIS).  In 1999, Bob was appointed to serve as the KCJIS Information Security Officer (ISO) when this new concept was mandated by the FBI.  As ISO, Bob is responsible for the security of KCJIS and for ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of criminal justice information to all the users of the system.  Since 2001, Bob has conducted security training throughout the state for local agencies.  He has also presented computer security related classes to other groups as well as at FBI ISO Symposiums.  Working as a Technical Support Consultant III for the Patrol, Bob brings over forty-two years of information technology experience to that position.  Bob holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Wichita State University.

Greg Edson
Kansas Intelligence System (KIS)
Greg Edson joined the Kansas Bureau of Investigation in March 2009 as the Intelligence Unit Supervisor leading the new consolidated unit.  Prior to joining the KBI, he has performed intelligence functions in Afghanistan and Kosovo in the global war on terror and in the Kansas Threat Integration Center.  While in Afghanistan, Greg taught multi-national intelligence classes at the Counter-Insurgency Academy in Kabul as well as serving as a battalion intelligence officer.

 

John Gauntt
DNA Databank
John Gauntt served as a Special Agent for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation for 28 years before retiring in 2007.  He returned to the KBI later that year to work in the Biology Section of the forensic laboratory

Shlomo Ginsburg
KASPER
     Shlomo Ginsburg has been working for the Kansas Department of Corrections IT Department since 2004.  While KASPER has been Shlomo’s pet project, as KDOC’s Database Administrator, he is in charge of development and maintenance of databases, compilation of a comprehensive data-element dictionary with relationship to the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), adoption of new database technologies, database server consolidation, database warehousing, and more.  Shlomo has over 100 publications, including academic papers, conference papers, and articles in popular computer and database magazines.

Robyn Goss
The Impact of Social Networking on Law Enforcement
After graduating from the Kansas Highway Patrol in December 1999,  Robyn Goss assumed road duties in Saline County.  In 2005 Trooper Goss was promoted to Technical Trooper assigned to the Training Academy.  Technical Trooper Goss has researched and instructed, The Impact of Social Networking Sites for Law Enforcement, for civilian and law enforcement officers within the KHP.

Tim Lane
Digital Forensics
Tim started his correctional career in 1994 as a Corrections Officer. In 2001, the focus of Tim’s career shifted when he transferred to the Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility as the Network Administrator. Since 2006 Tim has been a Technology Support Consultant. His duties include all aspects of information technology from hardware and software issues to network issues, including VMWare virtual computing environment. With a Bachelor of Science degree in Total Quality management, Tim’s IT certifications include A+, Network +, IACIS CEECS, and IACIS CFCE.

Michael R Miller
Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF)
Michael R. Miller graduated from Fort Hays State University with undergraduate degrees in Radiologic Technology and General Science and a graduate degree in Physical Education.  Miller worked in medical imaging in western Kansas and western Nebraska for approximately 13 years before joining the FBI in 1998.  He served in Chicago for six (6) years before transferring to the Kansas City Division, Topeka Resident Agency in 2004.  Currently, SA Miller serves as Joint Terrorism Task Force Coordinator for the Kansas City Division/Topeka Resident Agency which covers approximately 24 counties. 

Leslie Moore
Common Reporting Errors
In 1996 Leslie Moore began working at the KBI in Adult Records.  She began as a data entry clerk but within one year Leslie was promoted to the evening shift supervisor for the Adult Records and Identification Units.  With the restructuring of the units in 2005, Leslie became the Records Management manager for both the day and evening shifts.  Leslie’s primary responsibilities are to assist agencies with reporting criminal history information correctly to the Central Repository, to ensure the criminal history is entered accurately into the Computerized Criminal History (CCH), and to assist law enforcement and the public with any questions or concerns about criminal history.

Nicole A. Musquiz
Kansas Offender Registration Requirements
     After a 9 year career with the Shawnee County Probation Office, specializing in Pre-Sentence Investigations, Nicole Musquiz joined the Kansas Bureau of Investigation in 2007 as a Senior Administrative Specialist with the Offender Registration Unit of the Information Services Division, where she was the regional contact for the sheriff’s offices in the western region of Kansas and she was responsible for entering offender information and ensuring offender records were accurate and complete.   In 2008, Ms. Musquiz was promoted to Program Consultant I of the Offender Registration, Missing/Unidentified Person Clearinghouse and PI Licensing within the Information Services Division. Her duties include conducting formal and informal training to local, state and federal agencies as well as non-governmental organizations having interests in the Offender Registration Unit. She is also responsible for the quality assurance of registration paperwork from law enforcement agencies, as well as ensuring high quality data entry standards by section personnel and acts as the back up supervisor in the absence of the Section Chief for Missing/Unidentified Persons, and PI Licensing.  Ms. Musquiz is also a member of the Field Support Unit within the Information Services Division.
Ms. Musquiz holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice, Corrections from Washburn University with a minor in Sociology. 

Lisa Parrish
AFIS Update
Lisa Parrish started working at the KBI in January 1995 as an identification technician. Later, for several years Lisa also served as Criminal Records Division office supervisor for second shift.  In August 2008, Lisa accepted the position of training coordinator representing the identification unit.  Lisa has been actively involved with the testing and implementation of the new automated fingerprint identification system for the state.  She provides state wide training regarding the taking and processing of civil and criminal tenprint and palm print cards submitted to the KBI.

Keven Pellant
Differences in CSO, CC, Parole Services & Interstate Compact
With a Bachelors degree in Sociology and a Masters in Administration of Justice, Mrs. Keven Pellant has worked in criminal justice for more than 30 years.  Currently Keven is the Deputy Secretary for Community & Field Services for the Kansas Department of Corrections.  Community & Field Services includes Parole and Post Release Supervision of felons released from incarceration.  Community Corrections is an alternative sentencing option for the judiciary other than incarceration in prison.  Keven also is responsible for the Kansas Interstate Compact which is the agreement between states to manage offenders requesting transfer to or from Kansas.

Kelly Ralston
Kansas Intelligence System (KIS)
Kelly Ralston began his career as a Kansas law enforcement officer in 1982 joining the KBI in July 1996 as a special agent.  Since 1999, Ralston has served as the Special Agent in Charge, Special Operation Division for Western Kansas.  Ralston attended the Central States Law Enforcement Executive Development School in 2003, followed by his attending the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy in 2004.  Ralston is a graduate of both Basic and Advanced Accident Investigation at Northwestern University and is a graduate of the National Police Institute Central Missouri State University Accident Reconstruction Program.

Bill Roth
Improving Public Safety by Sharing Information
Bill Roth is the Chief Information Technology Architect for the State of Kansas working for the state for over 30 years.  Bill is on the National Association of State Chief Information Officers Enterprise Architecture Working Group and has participated in Federal Enterprise Architecture council sessions.  Bill has led classes on data sharing, information movement, and process improvement. 

Marilyn Scafe
Reentry Policy Council (RPC)
Marilyn Scafe graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in education and worked as a probation and parole officer with the State of Missouri.  Marilyn then co-founded and became executive director of an offender program under the Kansas City Crime Commission which developed and monitored community service projects for the area courts.  In 1995, she was appointed to the Kansas Parole Board serving three four-year terms eleven of which she chaired the board.  Her current position is executive director of the Kansas Reentry Policy Council.

Col (Dr) Jay G. Sekavec, USAF, Ret.
FORENSIC DENTISTRY & Upcoming NCIC Training for Dental and Law Enforcement Personnel
A forensic dentist and former U.S. Air Force medical and dental unit commander, he served 31 years on active duty.  Born in Wyoming and growing up in Western Kansas, he earned his bachelor’s degree from Fort Hays Kansas State University and his Doctor of Dental Surgery from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.  He is also a graduate of the Air Command & Staff College and National Defense University, as well as having completed numerous formal courses in forensics, investigations, criminalistics and jurisprudence.  He attended the coroner course at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy and was a former forensic dentistry consultant to the Texas Rangers, several law enforcement agencies,  USAF major command surgeon’s offices, and the Far East Regional Military Mortuary.  Besides teaching at Colby (KS) Community College, he is a Deputy Coroner and consultant in Wyoming, and has presented the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology field course in forensic odontology, as well as forensic dentistry courses world-wide.  Highlights of his forensic experience include identification of Vietnam POW-MIA remains, WW II remains, and many aircraft and shipboard accidents, criminal cases, and mass casualty/disasters.

Sheri Sharp
Dispositional Reporting
Sheri Sharp began working at the KBI in 2004 in the Records Management Section as an Administrative Assistant.  In June 2005 Sheri was promoted to Administrative Officer and as such was responsible for assisting in the supervision and training of 2nd shift records employees.  Since September of 2008, as a Program Consultant I, Sheri’s responsibilities include training for law enforcement agencies, prosecutors and courts on how to correctly report criminal history information to the Central Repository.

Dan Swearingen
The Process of Continuity of Operations Planning
After 33 years with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, Dan Swearingen is currently serving as Business Continuity Management Director for the Division of Information and Communications State of Kansas.  Prior to entering public service Dan was a Senior Consultant working with a professional management group providing consulting services primarily to healthcare, financial and governmental organizations.  In 1994 Dan was awarded the designation of Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) by the Disaster Recovery Institute International. 

Michael J. Van Stratton
Crime Laboratory
Michael J. Van Stratton is the Laboratory Director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.  For more than 35 years he has been involved in crime scene investigations. 

Larry Warders
Kansas Offender Registration Requirements
     Larry started working for the Kansas Highway Patrol in 1970 as a teletype operator.  That was when the old Kansas law enforcement teletype system used tape-fed teletypes to communicate throughout Kansas as well as the rest of the U.S. excluding AK and HI.  In 1972 Larry became a radio dispatcher at Division One re-assigning in 1973 to Division Nine in Kansas City when they experienced a shortage of personnel.  A year later, Larry returned to Division One in Topeka.  In 1987 Larry was promoted to Communications Sgt as the supervisor for the Troop B Communications Center in Topeka.   When the all KHP communications centers consolidated in Salina in 1998, Larry transferred into the newly formed KHP Training & Audit Unit as part of the conversion from the old ASTRA system to KCJIS.  Larry was initially the auditor assigned to 27 counties in NE Kansas.  In 2002 Larry was named the interim supervisor of the Training & Audit Unit ultimately promoting to supervisor in 2004.  He continues to serve in that capacity as well being the auditor for 11 counties in NE Kansas. 

Ivan Weichert
Implementing GIS in KCJIS
Ivan Weichert serves in Kansas government as the State Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Director assigned to the Kansas Information Technology Office in Topeka.  In public service since 1993, Ivan previously served as a GIS Analyst for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and as IT Director and Zoning Administrator for Shawnee County Kansas.   Ivan’s commitment to state and local mapping issues began in the mid 1990s, when he served as Chairman of the State GIS Standards Task Force and continues today with his involvement in a variety of local, state, regional and national initiatives; serving as a member of the Kansas Homeland Security Geospatial Data Workgroup, member and Past President of the Kansas Association of Mappers (KAM), Corporate Secretary of the MidAmerica GIS Consortium (MAGIC), and as Treasurer for the National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC).

Angela Wilson
Kansas Consumer Protection Act
Angela M. Wilson, Deputy Attorney General for Office of Kansas Attorney General Steve Six, has served as a research attorney for the Kansas Court of Appeals then served as an assistant district attorney for 10 years before assuming the post of deputy attorney general for the Division of Consumer Protection in 2008.  Angela has been active in numerous law enforcement activities and training throughout her tenure in prosecution including addressing the KCJIS conference last year on a 2005 trial of Kansas State University professor Thomas Murray who was convicted of killing his former wife

Janelle Zeiler
KIBRS Update
Janelle Zeiler began her career with the KBI in 2000 becoming the State Program Manager for Incident Based Reporting in 2004.  Later in 2004, Janelle completed training at the FBI’s CJIS Complex in Clarksburg, West Virginia.  She holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice majoring in law enforcement and corrections from Washburn University.  As the State Program Manager, Janelle communicates closely with Kansas law enforcement agencies as well as the FBI on issues associated with data that has been submitted for state and national publications and represents Kansas at the annual conference for the Association of State Uniform Crime Reporting Programs (ASUCRP.)

Related Links

Kansas Bureau of Investigation www.kansas.gov/kbi/
Office of Judicial Administration www.kscourts.org
Kansas Highway Patrol www.kansashighwaypatrol.org
Kansas Department of Corrections www.dc.state.ks.us