A Guide to Myspace.com for Police Officers DVD Sgt. Corey MacDonald, Esq. joined MYSPACE.COM as a school resource officer last fall and was on the website for the school year. In this DVD Sgt. MacDonald will relate his experiences on the website and how he was able to garner intelligence and evidence of crimes and misbehavior through his presence on MYSPACE.COM. He talks about the reasons he went on MYSPACE.COM as a police officer and not undercover. He will give an online line demonstration how to sign up and register your own place on MYSPACE.COM

Table of Contents

1. Introduction and the reason he decided to go on Myspace.com.

2. Description of Myspace.com

a) The new hour long phone call

b) Who controls it

c) Why it is not a fad

3. Why law enforcement should know about Myspace.com

a) Access to private conversations that are not protected

b) Find admissions of criminal behavior

c) Excellent intelligence tool.

d) Developing informants

4. Demonstration

a) How to register

b) establishing an online persona

c) Do's and Don'ts of communication on Myspace.com

d) How to navigate

e)  Use of pictures

f) Friends

g) comments

h) surveys

5. Supervision

a) Role of on-line log

b) Department supervisors and school

c) Dealing with the Press

d) Informing parents of potential problem

6. Seizing Information

a) Preserving a page

b) Printing a Page

c) Introducing a page in Court