Thursday, March 6, 2014
3:30 - 4:45PM in 3120 Computer Science Instructional Center (CSI)
Our visitor in the privacy honors seminar will be Phil Becnel,
whose talk is titled Private Investigations and Public Privacy
. He will explore the world of the
private investigator - someone who works in the commercial
sector but subject to many different regulatory restrictions as
compared with those of a government official (especially law
enforcement.)
Philip
Becnel is the Managing Partner of Dinolt Becnel & Wells
Investigative Group. He is the President of the Private
Investigators Association of Virginia and the author of two
influential investigative books: Principles of Investigative
Documentation and Private Investigator Entry Level (02E). The
latter is the only textbook for the entry-level course required
for all private investigators in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Philip has also published in several investigative and legal
journals, including The Legal Investigator, Law360, Westlaw
Journal Employment and The Corporate Counselor. He has performed
thousands of hours of interviews in civil, criminal and internal
investigations since 1999 and has taught undergraduate courses in
criminal procedure, white collar crime and criminal investigation.
He has also lectured on a wide variety of investigative topics to
the legal community and has been interviewed as an expert for
several media stories on matters ranging from missing persons to
bribery and fraud investigations. Philip earned a B.A. in
Anthropology from George Mason University and a Master's in
Criminal Justice from Boston University. He is a licensed private
investigator in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia and Washington,
DC.
As always, any student in the Honors College who has an interest
in meeting our seminar speakers is welcome to attend class as our
guest. Details on the course are at http://doubletap.cs.umd.edu/purtilo/239R/
Prof. Jim Purtilo (purtilo@cs.umd.edu)
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