PAD 530 Agency�s Law and Ethics of Hiring a Diverse Workforce
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Agency’s Law and Ethics of Hiring a Diverse Workforce
PAD 530
ANH NGUYEN
2/22/2013
Dr Udoh Udom
Given the legal and ethical challenges faced by the FBI, including the risks posed by
social media, Supreme Court decisions, and the evolving threat landscape post-9/11, how
can the FBI adapt its recruitment, training, and diversity initiatives to address these
challenges effectively? In your response, consider the importance of technological
advancements, legal reforms, and the need for a diversified workforce in maintaining the
agency’s mission of national security and law enforcement.
Word Count Requirement: 1000-1200 words.
PAD 530
ANH NGUYEN
2/22/2013
Dr Udoh Udom
Given the legal and ethical challenges faced by the FBI, including the risks posed by
social media, Supreme Court decisions, and the evolving threat landscape post-9/11, how
can the FBI adapt its recruitment, training, and diversity initiatives to address these
challenges effectively? In your response, consider the importance of technological
advancements, legal reforms, and the need for a diversified workforce in maintaining the
agency’s mission of national security and law enforcement.
Word Count Requirement: 1000-1200 words.
Laws Affecting the Agency. Law enforcement always has been a dangerous
profession because officers risk their lives to form a barrier between criminals and
society. In the past, police could to some extent protect themselves and their loved ones
from threats. Today these risks have changed. The power of the Internet—social media in
particular—has brought danger home to officers and their families. They cannot shield
themselves as easily from the repercussions of their jobs defending the community.
Considerable problems can occur, with the greatest danger being the personal threat to
officers and their families. Because of social media, law enforcement officers are public
figures more so than ever before. Barriers between their professional and personal lives
have been diminished. Police may have no expectations that their homes and families will
be protected from the dangers they face on the job. Motivated individuals could destroy a
law enforcement officer’s sense of security without breaking any laws. With cell phone
Internet access and a police officer’s name, an antagonistic traffic violator could have a
satellite image of the officer’s home displayed on the phone by the time the officer
returns to issue the citation. While this is not a violation of law, it certainly would send an
intimidating message to the officer. (Robert D. Stuart)
To protect their people, agencies can implement internal management
mechanisms to lessen this potential threat. To provide the most effective protection,
departments should designate a social media manager to handle specific core functions.
Ongoing training on current issues, the hazards of social media, and self-protection is
essential. The social media manager must facilitate the elimination of employees’
personal data from social networking sites and guarantee consistency for all personnel.
Most of these websites will remove information if petitioned to do so. Each has its own
profession because officers risk their lives to form a barrier between criminals and
society. In the past, police could to some extent protect themselves and their loved ones
from threats. Today these risks have changed. The power of the Internet—social media in
particular—has brought danger home to officers and their families. They cannot shield
themselves as easily from the repercussions of their jobs defending the community.
Considerable problems can occur, with the greatest danger being the personal threat to
officers and their families. Because of social media, law enforcement officers are public
figures more so than ever before. Barriers between their professional and personal lives
have been diminished. Police may have no expectations that their homes and families will
be protected from the dangers they face on the job. Motivated individuals could destroy a
law enforcement officer’s sense of security without breaking any laws. With cell phone
Internet access and a police officer’s name, an antagonistic traffic violator could have a
satellite image of the officer’s home displayed on the phone by the time the officer
returns to issue the citation. While this is not a violation of law, it certainly would send an
intimidating message to the officer. (Robert D. Stuart)
To protect their people, agencies can implement internal management
mechanisms to lessen this potential threat. To provide the most effective protection,
departments should designate a social media manager to handle specific core functions.
Ongoing training on current issues, the hazards of social media, and self-protection is
essential. The social media manager must facilitate the elimination of employees’
personal data from social networking sites and guarantee consistency for all personnel.
Most of these websites will remove information if petitioned to do so. Each has its own
procedures for making that request. These sites must be monitored to ensure the files do
not reappear. Internet and social media alerts provide e-mail notification any time a
specified word is mentioned or searched online. Many search engines offer these services
free of charge. Personnel alerts could be directed to private e-mail accounts to avoid
conflict with employee unions over privacy of off-duty activities. The social media
manager would monitor agency alerts.
In another case, during the current term, the Supreme Court decided cases of
importance to law enforcement, including those involving procedure, substantive law,
and law enforcement liability. In one case with immediate consequences, the court ruled
that attaching a global positioning system (GPS) device on the undercarriage of a car
constituted a Fourth Amendment search. the Fourth Amendment, which guards against
unreasonable searches and seizures, ruling that computers that follow suspects are much
more intrusive than people doing the same thing. It is clear that the court decision will
force a change in the department's manual guiding federal law enforcement operations.
Without GPS surveillance becomes hugely labor-intensive, especially in cases in which
you need round-the-clock coverage. It's something that could strap the bureau. This case
was decided based on simple trespass analysis. However, five justices signaled readiness
to expand the protections of the Fourth Amendment in future cases to limit government
collection and aggregation of publicly available information where such efforts may
violate the public’s reasonable expectation of privacy.
The significant in FBI construction change was implemented due to the “9-11
Memorial Intelligence Reform Act”, passed by Congress on July 31st, 2003. The
sweeping reforms, proposed in December 2001 by FBI Director Muller included plans to:
not reappear. Internet and social media alerts provide e-mail notification any time a
specified word is mentioned or searched online. Many search engines offer these services
free of charge. Personnel alerts could be directed to private e-mail accounts to avoid
conflict with employee unions over privacy of off-duty activities. The social media
manager would monitor agency alerts.
In another case, during the current term, the Supreme Court decided cases of
importance to law enforcement, including those involving procedure, substantive law,
and law enforcement liability. In one case with immediate consequences, the court ruled
that attaching a global positioning system (GPS) device on the undercarriage of a car
constituted a Fourth Amendment search. the Fourth Amendment, which guards against
unreasonable searches and seizures, ruling that computers that follow suspects are much
more intrusive than people doing the same thing. It is clear that the court decision will
force a change in the department's manual guiding federal law enforcement operations.
Without GPS surveillance becomes hugely labor-intensive, especially in cases in which
you need round-the-clock coverage. It's something that could strap the bureau. This case
was decided based on simple trespass analysis. However, five justices signaled readiness
to expand the protections of the Fourth Amendment in future cases to limit government
collection and aggregation of publicly available information where such efforts may
violate the public’s reasonable expectation of privacy.
The significant in FBI construction change was implemented due to the “9-11
Memorial Intelligence Reform Act”, passed by Congress on July 31st, 2003. The
sweeping reforms, proposed in December 2001 by FBI Director Muller included plans to:
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Strayer University
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Political Science