🚨 USE-OF-FORCE LAW IS CHANGING — AND AGENCIES ARE LOSING CASES BECAUSE OF IT

• Seven-figure civil verdict exposure

• Supervisors being named individually in lawsuits

• Criminal prosecution in officer-associated death cases

• Policy and documentation failures driving Monell liability

This is not theoretical. This is happening now.

⚖️ WHAT’S AT STAKE FOR YOUR AGENCY

If your agency has not updated training, policy, and documentation practices in the last 12–24 months:

• You are exposed to avoidable liability

• Your supervisors may be personally at risk

• Your force decisions may not withstand current legal scrutiny

• Your documentation may be undermining otherwise defensible cases

This program is designed to fix that.

🎯 WHAT YOU WILL WALK AWAY WITH

Participants leave with immediately usable, real-world tools:

• Defensible use-of-force documentation practices

• Updated legal frameworks applied to real-world scenarios

• Command-level strategies for investigations and review boards

• Policy and training adjustments aligned with current case law

• Practical methods to reduce civil and criminal exposure

👮 WHO SHOULD ATTEND — ALL LEVELS OF YOUR AGENCY

This training is designed for full-agency impact:

• Patrol officers

• Supervisors (sergeants, lieutenants)

• Command staff

• Internal affairs / professional standards

• Training officers and academy staff

• Municipal attorneys and agency counsel

Use-of-force liability is not an individual issue—it is an institutional issue.

👥 WHY YOU SHOULD SEND MULTIPLE PEOPLE

Agencies that send one person gain information.
Agencies that send teams reduce liability.

• Shared understanding across ranks

• Consistent decision-making

• Stronger documentation practices

• Better litigation outcomes

Join us in Green Bay, Wisconsin for our 2.5-day live training: Use of Force in Transition — The New Rules of Police Use of Force

With speakers Sam Hall, Esq., Chief Larry Gonzalez, A. David Berman, Jeb Brown, Esq., John G. Peters, Jr., Ph.D.

WHEN: July 13-15, 2026

WHERE: Tundra Lodge Resort, Green Bay, Wisconsin

Why This Training Matters: Use-of-force decisions are now evaluated through intense legal, technological, and public scrutiny. This advanced, in-person seminar helps law enforcement agencies reduce liability, protect officers, and improve decision-making by aligning policy, training, and tactics with current constitutional standards.

📋 PROGRAM OVERVIEW

This 2.5-day symposium provides a comprehensive, real-world analysis of modern use-of-force law and its operational impact.

🔹 Officer-Involved Shooting — From Scene to Courtroom

• Garrity issues and compelled statements

• Parallel investigations

• DA decisions vs. civil liability

• Monell exposure

🔹 Tactical Operations and SWAT Liability

• Deployment decision liability

• No-knock and forced entry risks

• Flash-bang and breaching issues

🔹 Use-of-Force Review & Command Accountability

• Early warning systems

• Supervisor liability

• Chief ratification

🔹 De-Escalation — Legal Reality

• Failure-to-de-escalate liability

• Tactical repositioning

• Case-driven analysis

🔹 Force Encounters on Trial

• Jury decision-making

• BWC impact

• Plaintiff strategies

🔹 Officer-Associated Death

• Post-George Floyd legal environment

• Medical obligations

• Criminal exposure

🔹 The Million-Dollar Report

• Documentation that wins—or loses—cases

• BWC inconsistencies

• Supervisor review liability

🔹 Crowds, Protests, and Civil Unrest

• Multi-agency liability

• First Amendment constraints

• Command accountability

🔹 Duty to Intervene

• Constitutional and criminal exposure

• Real-world application

🔹 What’s Coming Next

• Qualified immunity challenges

• AI and use-of-force decisions

• Emerging liability trends

💰 REGISTRATION

Individual Registration

• First attendee: $695

Same Agency Discount

• Second attendee: $595

• Third attendee: $395

🏛 Agency Team Package — $1,685

Three attendees. One invoice. Maximum impact.

ADA in the Jails: Managing the Fragile Inmate

SHIELD Public Safety Training programs are designed to reduce agency liability, strengthen constitutional compliance, improve operational decision-making, and prevent the types of failures that lead to DOJ intervention, class‑action litigation, and catastrophic civil verdicts. By focusing on the inmate populations and operational failures most often identified in federal investigations, this course delivers measurable risk reduction and long‑term cost avoidance that far exceeds the cost of attendance.

This comprehensive ADA jail operations program examines how disability‑related obligations are evaluated in today’s environment—by the Department of Justice, federal courts, plaintiffs’ attorneys, and independent monitors. The course integrates Supreme Court authority, DOJ findings, real‑world case studies, and operational best practices to help jail leaders manage fragile inmate populations lawfully, safely, and defensibly.

Topics Covered

• How the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to jails and correctional operations

• Intake, screening, and early identification of ADA‑related needs

• Managing deaf and hard‑of‑hearing inmates and effective communication requirements

• Accommodating blind and visually impaired inmates in written and electronic systems

• Mental illness, segregation, discipline, and suicide‑related ADA exposure

• Intellectual and developmental disabilities, cognitive impairment, and PREA overlap

• Department of Justice jail investigations and enforcement trends

• Class‑action litigation arising from systemic ADA failures

• Identifying ADA failures through audits, data analysis, and supervisory oversight

• Correcting ADA deficiencies and managing medical and mental‑health vendors

Who Should Attend

• Sheriffs, undersheriffs, and executive leadership

• Jail administrators and command staff

• Custody supervisors and classification personnel

• ADA coordinators and compliance staff

• Medical and mental‑health leadership

• County counsel, risk managers, and legal advisors

Why This Course Matters

ADA failures in jails frequently result in DOJ investigations, federal consent decrees, class‑action lawsuits, and long‑term loss of operational control. Mental illness, cognitive impairment, and communication barriers are consistently identified as high‑risk areas in deaths in custody, use‑of‑force incidents, and systemic civil rights findings. This course helps agencies align policy, training, and operations with current legal standards while providing practical tools to identify and correct problems before they escalate.

Return on Investment (ROI)

This course targets the highest financial, operational, and reputational risks facing jail facilities. ROI is realized through reduced DOJ exposure, avoidance of class‑action litigation, improved documentation of good‑faith compliance, lower civil settlement costs, and stronger institutional defenses when incidents occur. Preventing a single DOJ investigation or systemic ADA failure can save agencies millions of dollars and preserve long‑term operational autonomy.