PAD 530 Agency�s Law and Ethics of Hiring a Diverse Workforce

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Agency’s Law and Ethics of Hiring a Diverse WorkforcePAD 530ANH NGUYEN2/22/2013Dr Udoh UdomGiven the legal and ethical challenges faced by the FBI, including the risks posed bysocial media, Supreme Court decisions, and the evolving threatlandscape post-9/11, howcan the FBI adapt its recruitment, training, and diversity initiatives to address thesechallenges effectively? In your response, consider the importance of technologicaladvancements, legal reforms, and the need for a diversified workforce in maintaining theagency’s mission of national security and law enforcement.Word Count Requirement: 1000-1200 words.

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Laws Affecting the Agency.Law enforcementalways has been a dangerousprofession because officers risk their lives to form a barrier between criminals andsociety. In the past, police could to some extent protect themselves and their loved onesfrom threats. Today these risks have changed. The power of the Internet—social media inparticular—has brought danger home to officers and their families. They cannot shieldthemselves as easily from the repercussions of their jobs defending the community.Considerable problems can occur, with the greatest danger being the personal threat toofficers and their families. Because of social media, law enforcement officers are publicfigures more so than ever before. Barriers between their professional and personal liveshave been diminished. Police may have no expectations that their homes and families willbe protected from the dangers they face on the job. Motivated individuals could destroy alaw enforcement officer’s sense of security without breaking any laws. With cell phoneInternet access and a police officer’s name, an antagonistic traffic violator could have asatellite image of the officer’s home displayed on the phone by the time the officerreturns to issue the citation. While this is not a violation of law, it certainly would send anintimidating message to the officer.(Robert D. Stuart)Toprotecttheirpeople,agenciescanimplementinternalmanagementmechanisms to lessen this potential threat. To provide the most effective protection,departments should designate a social media manager to handle specific core functions.Ongoing training on current issues, the hazards of social media, and self-protection isessential. The social media manager must facilitate the elimination of employees’personal data from social networking sites and guarantee consistency for all personnel.Most of thesewebsites will remove information if petitioned to do so. Each has its own

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procedures for making that request. These sites must be monitored to ensure the files donot reappear. Internet and social media alerts provide e-mail notification any time aspecified word is mentioned or searched online. Many search engines offer these servicesfree of charge. Personnel alerts could be directed to private e-mail accounts to avoidconflict with employee unions over privacy of off-duty activities. The social mediamanager would monitor agency alerts.In another case,during the current term, the Supreme Court decided cases ofimportance to law enforcement, including those involving procedure, substantive law,and law enforcement liability. In one case with immediate consequences, the court ruledthat attaching a global positioning system (GPS) device on the undercarriage of a carconstituted aFourth Amendmentsearch.the Fourth Amendment, which guards againstunreasonable searches and seizures, ruling that computers that follow suspects are muchmore intrusive than people doing the same thing.It is clear that the court decision willforce a change in the department's manual guiding federal law enforcement operations.Without GPS surveillance becomes hugely labor-intensive, especially in cases in whichyou need round-the-clock coverage. It's something that could strap the bureau.This casewas decided based on simple trespass analysis. However, five justices signaled readinessto expand the protections of the Fourth Amendment in future cases to limit governmentcollection and aggregation of publicly available information where such efforts mayviolate the public’s reasonable expectation of privacy.The significant in FBI construction change was implemented due to the“9-11MemorialIntelligenceReformAct”,passedbyCongressonJuly31st,2003.Thesweeping reforms,proposed in December 2001 by FBI Director Mullerincludedplans to:

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