Year in Review: 2017 NDAA Training Highlights.

PositionNational District Attorneys Association

IN 2017, NDAA held 11 national training courses covering topics from prosecuting homicides to the continued rise of digital evidence in cases and how to use that in trial. In addition to the national courses, two training courses were conducted as part of grant work through the Department of Transportation, focused on commercial driver license issues facing prosecutors in their jurisdictions. NDAA trained hundreds of prosecutors at the state and local level in 2017, and plans to expand its national course offerings in 2018 to include courses on mental health, opioids, human trafficking and trials involving a child victim. Below is just a small snapshot of the exceptional training provided by faculty teaching for NDAA in coordination with the association staff. We hope you will join us at our great offerings in 2018!

* Commercial Driver License Training

January 24-25, Alexandria, VA

June 14-15, Cincinnati, OH

The National Traffic Law Center at NDAA conducted two comprehensive courses concerning commercial motor vehicles in 2017 as part of a grant through the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).The courses focused on the commercial driver license (CDL) and court interaction with commercial motor vehicle traffic. These courses were conducted for 83 people in Alexandria, Virginia in January and 93 people in Cincinnati, Ohio in June.

The goal of the courses was to help attendees understand that tickets for activities that seem somewhat minor when committed by a driver in a car are much more serious when committed by a truck or bus driver. A CDL driver with a failure to use a turn signal ticket has a 96 percent likelihood of being involved in a future crash.

To emphasize the danger, topics in the course included: the complexities of masking and diversion as written in the Code of Federal Regulations; impaired, reckless and distracted driving; the importance of prosecution; federal and state requirements prohibiting diversion (plea negotiations) and masking;

Attendees included prosecutors, judges, law enforcement officers, driver agency representatives and persons employed by FMCSA. Attendees inspected trucks with law enforcement inspectors, learned of the use of commercial motor vehicles in human and drug trafficking and how driver's license administrators and enforcement officers with FMCSA attempt to help law enforcement, prosecutors and judges be effective when dealing with commercial driving issues.

Attendees also learned that responsible trucking companies want the help of the judicial system to remove rogue truckers from the road. Bad actors harm the reputation of professional, responsible drivers and companies. To help accomplish that goal, representatives involved in monitoring drivers shared information on how to recognize practices that are dangerous. Companies are responsible for the practices of their drivers and need our help to remove those that place the public at risk.

* Career Prosecutor Course

May 15-25, New Orleans, LA

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