VOCA TRAINING: Evidence for PFA Cases
This webinar is part of the 2020 PLAN VOCA Grantee Training. Click here for a full schedule of the scheduled webinars in this program.
Evidence for PFA Cases
June 18, 10:00 AM – 11:00 PM
Presenters: Larry Szmulowicz and Arly Smith-Pearson, PLA
This webinar will discuss the use of electronic evidence in Protection From Abuse (PFA) cases. We will discuss the applicable rules of evidence and case law regarding authentication of social media, phone, and other electronic evidence. Finally we will discuss best practices and strategies for admitting and using the evidence effectively, as well as the ethics of sharing evidence with a prosecutor.
Registration Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlceyvrD4tG9zh3XezkU3qJufD5Uuu851v
ABOUT THE 2020 PLAN VOCA GRANTEE TRAINING
Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network, Inc. (PLAN) is offering 12 one-hour webinars during June 2020 in place of the previously announced 2-day training contemplated for June 23-24, 2020.
Attendance at 10 of these webinars will satisfy the 10-hour mandatory training requirement and offer two extra training hours. These webinars will offer one (1.0) PA CLE credit each for participation.
Certificates of Participation for your personnel files will be sent out after all of the sessions have been completed.
PLEASE NOTE: PERSONS WORKING UNDER A VOCA GRANT MUST COMPLETE THE TRAINING HOURS AND HAVE THE DOCUMENTATION IN THEIR PERSONNEL FILES.
PLAN thanks PCCD, especially Kathy Buckley and Jeff Blystone, for their creativity and flexibility in allowing us to offer this training virtually in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
PLAN also thanks the CLE Board of the PA Supreme Court, for their ongoing funding which makes training programs like this possible for PLAN to offer.