Bill Text: NJ A1782 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires Division of Criminal Justice to establish program to train municipal and county law enforcement officers to detect computer crime.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-12 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee [A1782 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-A1782-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
214th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman NANCY F. MUNOZ
District 21 (Essex, Morris, Somerset and Union)
SYNOPSIS
Requires Division of Criminal Justice to establish program to train municipal and county law enforcement officers to detect computer crimes.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
An Act concerning computer and high technology crimes and supplementing chapter 17B of Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The Director of the Division of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law and Public Safety, in consultation with the county prosecutors, shall develop and approve a program and curriculum to train county and municipal law enforcement officers to investigate crimes in which computers and other high technology instruments are utilized. The director shall distribute the curriculum to any county or municipal law enforcement agency which submits a request.
b. The program shall include, but not be limited to, instruction in the following subjects:
(1) Conducting investigations in which computers, telecommunications devices and other high technology instruments are utilized in the commission of criminal acts, including computer manipulation crimes, illegal online activities, telecommunications crimes and thefts of computer related technologies;
(2) Forensic recovery, evidence preservation and analysis of data in computer systems seized by law enforcement officers because of suspected involvement in unlawful activity;
(3) Monitoring the use of interactive computer services by persons suspected of contacting or seeking to contact children under age 18 for the purpose of engaging in unlawful sexual activity; and
(4) Cooperation with other law enforcement agencies at the local, State and federal level in order to coordinate efforts in investigating and prosecuting unlawful activity involving computers and other high technology instruments.
c. The director shall provide any technical support and assistance needed by any local law enforcement agency in implementing the program.
d. The director shall review the training course annually and modify the curriculum as needed.
2. This act shall take effect on the first day of the sixth month after enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Director of the Division of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law and Public Safety, in consultation with the county prosecutors, to develop and approve a program and curriculum to train county and municipal law enforcement officers to investigate crimes in which computers and other high technology instruments are utilized. The director is required to distribute the curriculum to any county or municipal law enforcement agency that submits a request.
Under the provisions of the bill, the program of instruction would include, but not be limited to: (1) conducting investigations in which computers, telecommunications devices and other high technology instruments are utilized in the commission of criminal acts, including computer manipulation crimes, illegal online activities, telecommunications crimes and thefts of computer related technologies; (2) forensic recovery, evidence preservation and analysis of data in computer systems seized by law enforcement officers because of suspected involvement in unlawful activity; (3) monitoring the use of interactive computer services by persons suspected of contacting or seeking to contact children under age 18 for the purpose of engaging in unlawful sexual activity; and (4) cooperation with other law enforcement agencies at the local, State and federal level in order to coordinate efforts in investigating and prosecuting unlawful activity involving computers and other high technology instruments.
The bill also requires the Director of the Division of Criminal Justice to provide any technical support and assistance needed by any local law enforcement agency in implementing the program. The director also is required to review the training course annually and modify the curriculum as needed.
This bill emanates from the work of the Assembly Advisory Council on Women, which took testimony concerning training law enforcement officers to investigate Internet crime.
