Department of Justice Television Network

a.  Sponsors:  This program are sponsored for GETN military and federal audiences by the Department of Justice Television Network, the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). 

b.  Availability:  This FREE, public domain, live and interactive program will be available as scheduled on the Military/Federal CDV GETN Convergent digital satellite networks and on C-Band analog satellite downlinks.  GETN/Convergent digital satellite downlinks are found at over 1200 military installations and federal office locations.  Other federal and private satellite networks may also carry this program.  In addition, the program may be available to a limited number of non-satellite capable military and federal sites via VTC terrestrial relay.  Local site use coordination of satellite downlinks will be required.   

Will this program be web streamed?   Yes, in a live and archived version.

c.  Target Audience Statement:  The target audience for this program includes any military or federal official with an interest in this topic.  Secondary audiences include:

• Executive and line-level law enforcement professionals
• Community and faith-based leaders, groups, and members
• State, tribal, and local government executives
• Criminal justice professionals and educators
• United States Attorneys' Offices
• Youth-serving professionals

d.  Program Summary:  Join OJJDP for a powerful panel discussion featuring gang specialists from federal and local law enforcement agencies and community and faith-based organizations.  Learn what law enforcement and communities are doing to share gang-prevention responsibilities.  This program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) & Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).

There will be a panel discussion by gang specialists from federal and local law enforcement agencies and community and faith-based organizations. Additional discussion will cover what law enforcement and communities are doing to share gang-prevention responsibilities.

e.  Panelists:

Moderator - Doris McMillon -  Doris is a veteran journalist, newscaster, producer, media consultant, and trainer whose work spans posts at NBC News, WABC-TV, Fox Television, WJLA-TV (Washington, D.C.), the U.S. Information Agency's WORLDNET, and the U.S. Department of State.  In addition to moderating DOJ Connect webcasts, Ms. McMillon hosts "Volunteers: For the Sake of Others" for GOODLIFE TV, and "Education News Parents Can Use," a U.S. Department of Education production.  Her experience also includes Black Entertainment Television's nationwide cable network where she anchored news and public affairs programs from Washington, D.C.

The Washington Business Exchange Network honored Ms. McMillon as one of "Washington's Most Admired Women."  She received the Washington Variety Club's Humanitarian Award and the International Business Exchange's Black Communicators Award, and was selected as "Outstanding Young Woman in America" by Who's Who in Black America.  In addition, she was a Better Chance Scholar.  Ms. McMillon has a bachelor of arts degree in mass communications, radio, TV, and film from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

Dr. Scott H. Decker -  Scott H. Decker is curator's professor of criminology and criminal justice and fellow of the Center for International Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.  His main research interests are gangs, juvenile, justice, criminal justice policy, and the offender's perspective.  He is completing an evaluation of the Juvenile Accountability Incentives Block Grant and SafeFutures programs in St. Louis.  Dr. Decker is the research partner for Project Safe Neighborhoods in the Eastern District of Missouri and the Southern District of Illinois.  His most recent books include Life in the Gang (Cambridge), Confronting Gangs (Roxbury), Policing Gangs and Youth Violence (Wadsworth), Responding to Gangs (National Institute of Justice), and European Street Gangs and Troublesome Youth Groups (Alta Mira Press).  Dr. Decker received a bachelor's degree in social justice from DePauw University, and a master's degree and doctorate in criminology from Florida State University.

Rev. Melvin Jackson -  The Rev. Melvin Jackson is pastor of the Christian Love Baptist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, and president and CEO of Westside Community Ministries, Inc., which has a membership of churches, businesses, and community organizations.  Rev. Jackson is an experienced community organizer.  He managed the transformation of two public housing communities of 310 families from a crime-infested, fear-ridden, prison-like environment to a crime-free, single-family and duplex public housing community nationally recognized as one of the safest places to live and raise a family in Indianapolis.  He works with the Youth Empowerment Program for young adults ages 16 to 25 in partnership with the local court.  He also partnered with Child Protective Services and Juvenile Court to provide faith-based counseling to troubled children and their families.

Deborah J. Rhodes -  Deborah J. Rhodes is the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama.  Formerly, she was counselor to the assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice.  She served as the Department's ex officio commissioner on the United States Sentencing Commission and as its representative on the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules.  She also supervised the Office of Policy and Legislation and was the Departments liaison to the American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Section.  Previously, Ms. Rhodes was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in San Diego where she was acting chief of the Appellate Section and deputy chief of the Narcotics Enforcement Section.  She successfully prosecuted large drug organizations and returned the first indictments against the Arellano-Felix brothers, leaders of the Tijuana cartel, widely reported as the most violent drug cartel in Mexico.  As a trial attorney with the Department's Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, Philadelphia Strike Force, Ms. Rhodes tried high-profile organized crime cases involving the Scarfo crime family and others in federal courts in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Delaware.  PBS television featured one of these cases in a documentary titled "Mobfathers."  Ms. Rhodes began her career by clerking in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.  She graduated with honors from Rutgers Law School in Camden, New Jersey, where she was editor in chief of the Rutgers Law Journal.

Thomas Jackson -  Thomas Jackson is a police officer with the Metropolitan Nashville (Tennessee) Police Department.  During his 30- year career, he has worked as an investigator, a detective, and in community affairs, but his favorite assignment has been in community oriented policing.  Since 1998, Officer Jackson has served as a school resource officer in one of the city's middle schools, and he is a member of the National Association of School Resource Officer Practitioners.  Also since 1998, he has been an instructor in the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program for middle school children, and the Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) program for both elementary and middle school children.  Officer Jackson is a member of the G.R.E.A.T. National Training Team and travels around the United States to train potential instructors in the G.R.E.A.T. program.  He also is a lead family facilitator in the G.R.E.A.T. program, teaching parents and their children how to communicate with each other, particularly about sensitive issues, as well as Internet safety, and avoiding the wrong kind of people.  He has received many personal testimonials from families who participated in the program, telling him that the program changed their lives for the better.  Officer Jackson believes that a healthy community is based on healthy families.

f.  CEUs, CMEs, Certificates:  None Available 

g.  Videotape Availability:  None Available 

h.  Videotape release (if taping from broadcast):  These FREE programs are unclassified and non-scrambled.  There are no copyright restrictions on this program, however it MAY NOT be videotaped and re-broadcast where fees are attached to its showing.  It may not be edited, segmented, or used for commercial purposes or for profit purposes by other networks without additional or prior permission of the sponsors. 

i.  Satellite Coordinates and Site Support Materials Packet:   This program is expected to be available on C/KU analog downlinks.  Coordinates will be furnished to registered sites when they become available.  See this site for a PDF file of reference materials:  http://www.dojconnect.com/docs/resources/Gang_Prevention_Resources.pdf

i.  Registration:  All non-DOJ military and federal sites MUST register for this FREE, public domain programs to receive illumination authentication (GETN/Warrior dishes) and C/KU satellite sites.  Sites may register at: DOJ Registration Page or by calling Ed Kronholm’s Office, the Satellite Registrations Coordinator,  toll-free at 877-820-0305 or 888-820-4898. 

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