Edgewood Parents:

Please check back soon for more, updated information including the results of the survey your kids took in homerooms.

Thanks!

We have been receiving numerous complaints about this address and the eBay International Trading Company.  There is no such address, and any posts on CraigsList for heavy equipment that asks you to make a purchase through eBay International Training Company are a scam.  Consumers as always need to be aware of sending money through wire transfer points, as you cannot control who gets the money.

Stop, think, and check out any companies you plan to do business with BEFORE sending money!

As members of the Wisconsin Association of Computer Crime Investigators we are pleased to have the 2010 WACCI Conference in Madison October 12-15, 2010.

We are also very pleased to welcome Alicia Kozakiewicz on October 12 for a public presentation directed mainly at kids and their parents.  Alicia’s horrifying story and words of encouragement in ways to protect yourselves and your kids should be heard by all.  This presentation will taken place on the evening of October 12, 2010 at the Exhibition Hall of the Alliant Energy Center, 1919 Alliant Energy Center Way  Madison, WI.  The presentation is open to anyone who wishes to attend, and is completely free!

If you would like to assist us in distributing posters for this event feel free to download and send a copy of the poster, which can be found here.

Watch this website or Wacci.org for more information.

Read more about Alicia’s story here:

http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20020105missingp1.asp

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3742297&page=1

A short biography on Alicia:

The AliciaProject has its roots in tragedy, but has grown to become a voice for exploited children. In January of 2002, its namesake, Alicia, became the victim of an Internet luring. The predator transported her to another state and there, for four terrifying days, held her captive. Returning to school a year later, Alicia was soon highly involved in both academic and extracurricular activities and graduated with high honors. During these years, she came to realize that other children need not suffer her traumatic experiences. She joined her local Pittsburgh, PA Air Search and Rescue group, and created an Internet Safety Program, the AliciaProject, which she presented first in cooperation with the FBI Adopt-A-School program, the COPC Program of her University, and now independently, to schools and organizations.

Alicia has been honored to address a number of conferences, forums, and summits for both governmental and private organizations, lending her personal and unique insight of the subject. She has participated in Internet Safety films for the FBI, the Office of the Pa. Attorney General’s Operation Safe Surf, the PaCyber School, the Pennsylvania Center for Safe Schools, Enough Is Enough, and the Arts and Entertainment Biography Channel, among others, as well as being the subject of an award winning Internet Safety documentary for PBS. Her story and insight have been featured on the Oprah Show, as part of Internet Safety programs across the nation, and internationally in magazines including ‘People” and Cosmopolitan, in the hope of raising awareness.

Alicia was chosen to receive both a 2009 Jefferson Award and the 2007 Courage Award by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in recognition of these efforts.

Collaborating with four other young victims, Alicia has recently co-authored “You’re Not Alone,” an OJJDP publication whose goal is to empower other abductees.

Additionally, recognizing the need for effective Internet Safety legislation, Alicia testified before Congress in 2007, and has lobbied successfully for Virginia’s 2008 “Alicia’s Law,” an initiative which she hopes to see instituted in all fifty states.

Now studying at a Pittsburgh University, Alicia is continuing the mission, majoring in Psychology with a concentration in Forensics. Her ultimate goal is to earn the title of Special agent, and to join one of the FBI taskforces that were instrumental in her rescue.

“I’d like,” she says,” to ultimately become the person who rescues the child, and then helps to recover that child’s soul.”

In March of this year, I went to a public meeting in Madison about Google Fiber as a private citizen who is enthusiastically hoping that the project will come our way. I believe that it is a fantastic opportunity for our community. I didn’t go as a representative of the police department, though I believe that the installation of fiber could potentially bring some really interesting innovations and improvements to policing in Madison. While I was at the meeting, some of my comments regarding my profession and my thoughts about how Google Fiber could change the face of policing were recorded on video.  Some of my comments were edited and posted in a very truncated manner to the Internet. By the time the video got to YouTube, the comments were somewhat out of context, and so I’m hoping to provide more background here for those who have questions about my comments.

I’ve been a detective and computer forensic examiner for the City of Madison Police Department for over 10 years.  I work with two other sworn officers, one from the City of Madison, and one from Dane County in the Computer Forensics Shared Resources Partnership.  Our job is to investigate both Internet related crimes and crimes involving evidence stored digitally on computers, cell phones, and other media.  We deal with many terabytes of evidentiary data from computers, cell phones, and other digital storage devices that come to us from victims, suspects, and even sometimes third party witnesses.  The Computer Forensics Shared Resources Partnership has a completely stand-alone forensic network, and the evidence stored on our forensic network is physically isolated not only from the Internet, but from the city and county networks as well. Due to the nature and sensitivity of the data we deal with, this is an absolute necessity. We don’t move large volumes of data across the Internet, and so in that way Google fiber wouldn’t directly affect the way I do my job or how we store and deal with digital evidence in the SRP. 

My enthusiasm for the future of fiber in our community has to do with the possibilities fiber connection would bring for the ability of the Police Department to communicate with Madison’s citizens through Internet based means… It would be nice to have the ability to hold community meetings across the city in a virtual environment to give personal safety tips, crime prevention, internet safety classes to schools, community notification messages, and other information in an interactive way.  And it would be nice to be among the first communities to support Internet based community policing and embrace the advantages that technology can bring to a community.  Imagine the possibility of visiting a ‘virtual’ Madison police station to file police reports, ask policing related questions, and talk face to face with an officer from the convenience of your own home.  I think the possibilities are exciting and broad reaching, and I really hope that Madison is chosen and the city Google has been searching for.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions.

Thanks!

Cindy

Det. Cynthia Murphy, EnCE, CCFT-A, DFCP
Madison Police Department
Computer Forensics Unit
211 S. Carroll St.
Madison, WI 53703
cmurphy *at* cityofmadison.com
608-267-4148