Raymond
A. Franklin
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Biography:
An Instructional Technologist, Raymond A. Franklin has served public safety since 1972. As a senior executive of the Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commissions, he rose to the rank of Acting Executive Director from 2009 to 2010. For twenty years, he was responsible for development of the $75 million state Public Safety Education and Training Center in Sykesville, Maryland. This facility, which houses a variety of police and correctional training and public educational services, also provides the central training academies for the Maryland State Police, Natural Resources Police, Forest and Park Service, the State's Division of Correction and the Division of Parole and Probation. As a senior executive of the Commissions, Mr. Franklin also oversaw daily facility operations including instructional support services, planning and research, capital budgeting, computer operations, physical plant management, public information and publications programs of the Commissions. Mr. Franklin has served as a member of the Maryland Governor's Advisory Committee on Racial, Religious and Ethnic Intimidation, the U.S. Attorney's Hate Crimes Task Force, the Baltimore County Community Hate Crimes Task Force, the Coalition Opposed to Violence and Extremism, the Maryland Community Crime Prevention Institute Steering Committee, the Maryland Anti-Terrorism Task Force and the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training (IADLEST). He currently chairs the IADLEST Committee on Technology and serves on the national Counter-Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Training Coordination Working Groups of the U.S. Department of Justice. An authority on the exploitation of new media technologies by groups and individuals committed to racial, religious and ethnic hate and violence, Mr. Franklin has lectured widely and maintains and publishes The Hate Directory: Hate Groups on the Internet, the most complete summary available in this important area today. In addition to monitoring web sites, the 175 page Directory now provides analyses of bias oriented games, Internet Service Providers, news groups, mailing lists and web rings. The Hate Directory is updated several times a year and is distributed to law enforcement and human rights organizations throughout the world. Recent presentations have included the Southeastern Bias and Hate Summit, the Maryland Hate Crimes Summit, the Coalition to Oppose Violence and Extremism, the National Association of Human Rights Workers, the Maryland Library Association, the Maryland Youth Suicide Prevention Conference, the Maryland Hate Crime Conference at Goucher College, the Maryland Commission on Human Relations and the FBI Basic Anti-Terror Training for Law Enforcement Program. His acivities have been cited in many publications, including Time, US News and World Report, USA Today, Baltimore Sun, The Observer (London), Newsday, Jerusalem Post, Salt Lake Tribune, Detroit News, Montgomery Advertiser, Knoxville Times-Sentinel and Chicago Tribune. Television appearances have included CNN, and local outlets WBFF and WMAR-TV. Mr. Franklin has also been active in establishing web presence for national and Maryland law enforcement and public safety entities. Efforts have included the Victim Services in Maryland, Crime Prevention Institute and IADLEST (International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training) websites, as well as MDLE.net, the main portal to law enforcement in Maryland. As Project Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance grant, Web Based Public Safety Information Access System, he developed Internet, intranet and extranet services for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Additional development projects included COPCOURSES.com which provides a portal to distance learning opportunities for peace officers worldwide. The Maryland Online Hate Crime Resource Center provides public access to important information from many cooperating agencies. The IADLEST TRTLE.net (Terrorism Response Training for Law Enforcement) initiative comprises an integrated, key CD-ROM and secure intranet providing up to the minute resources for peace officers tasked with the development of training curricula and operational policies in this critical public safety area. Mr. Franklin conceived, planned and designed Maryland's Terrorism Information Network. This specialized police communication and information system integrates services of several homeland security agencies and is currently being successfully operated by the Maryland State Police Intelligence Division. As a part-time instructor at Towson University Mr. Franklin developed and taught a new graduate offering entitled Telecomputing in Education. He also revised and instructed both undergraduate and graduate programs in Photography, Graphic Design and Instructional Media Production. A frequent lecturer at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, he has provided instruction on Internet investigation and use of new communication technologies by hate groups and anti-government organizations. He has presented in the National Academy program, agent in-service training and national satellite teleconference programs. The National Decertification Database and subsequent Index, developed for the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training (IADLEST) with funding from the U.S. Department of Justice, represented the first successful effort to nationally consolidate and share information regarding the dismissal for cause of police officers throughout the United States. From 2003 through 2009, he served as Program Director of the National Sobriety Testing Resource Center, a project of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation and IADLEST. He is also directed development of the first national SFST practitioner training management system Most recently Mr. Franklin conceived and implemented the National Law Enforcement Academy Resource Network (NLEARN), the nation's first network linking America's 750 state and localo police academies. Funding for this effort was provided by the National Institute of Justice. Mr. Franklin is currently an independent consultant serving the law enforcement community and related first responder markets. Recent Publications: NLEARN: The Nation’s
First Police Academy Network, Police Chief, November, 2009 2009 Survey of
POST Agencies Regarding Certification Practices, POCIS.ORG, 2009 Unlicensed Police:
Sworn Law Enforcement Officers Exempt from State POST Certification POST-XML: A Peace
Officer Standards and Training XML Data Model, POCIS.ORG, 2007 Peace Officers
Standards and Training in Massachusetts: A Comparative Review, Law 2005 IADLEST Sourcebook,
2006 2005 Survey of
POST Agencies Regarding Certification Practices, POCIS.ORG, 2005 Impediments to
Testing: The Impact of Hearing Impairment and Language Barriers on the
Field Motivating Criminal
Racist Violence: An Officer's Introduction to Leaderless Resistance, If
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