With election day only six months out, federal employees and agency heads alike are preparing for the extensive transition. Here to discuss this hot topic is a roundtable of representatives from organizations around the federal community who will look at the transition from both the political and workforce viewpoint.

The Third Circuit recently joined the likes of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Ninth Circuits to hold that officers possessing only an arrest warrant may not enter a home without probable cause to believe that an arrestee resides at and is present within the residence.

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund has selected Sergeant John Conneely and Officer Michael Modzelewski of the Chicago (IL) Police Department, as the recipients of its Officer of the Month Award for April 2016.

Defendant’s acquiescence to the question, “May I look for your car?” constituted his valid consent to a search of his vehicle under the circumstances, the Seventh Circuit recently held.

A federal grand jury indictment unsealed Wednesday charged the former South Carolina police officer who shot and killed a man fleeing a traffic stop with a federal civil rights violation.

An inheritance should be all good news, but for too many people it becomes a frustrating expensive experience. Whether you expect an inheritance, plan to leave one or just know you might be called in make decisions for someone else’s estate, this webinar has valuable information for you.

To celebrate National Police Week 2016, FEDtalk is hosting Craig Floyd, CEO of National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF), and Pat Montuore, founder and CEO of the Police Unity Tour.

The Sixth Circuit recently found that metadata used to route communications on wireless phones are business records, created and maintained by wireless carriers. As such, the FBI’s possession of these materials, without a warrant, was not a search under the Fourth Amendment.

A Malian national received 25 years in U.S. prison after pleading guilty to charges of conspiring to kill an American diplomat in Niger.

As the members of the 263rd Session of the FBI National Academy exited the buses that brought them to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC, they made their way to the walls inscribed with the names of more than 20,000 fallen officers.

The U.S. Border Patrol recently pledged to add up to 1,600 women to their workforce.

Tune in this week to preview Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW) events with members of the Public Employees Roundtable.

Law enforcement entry into a home, over the homeowner’s objection, was justified because officers reasonably believed a person inside was potentially unable to communicate and held against her will or otherwise in danger, the Eighth Circuit held.

The FBI teamed up with NYPD to arrest more than 30 gang members involved in major drug operations in East Harlem’s public housing complexes.

In the early hours of March 18, 1990, thirteen masterpieces were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, worth approximately $500 million.

The Seventh Circuit recently held that the use of a “super-sensitive instrument” outside an apartment door violates a defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights. Justifying its holding, the court discussed that people of different ethnicities and race as well as of lower income are more likely to reside in apartment complexes and need to be afforded protection.

A trifecta of meth busts at the Mexico border resulted in the confiscation of nearly $5.6 million worth of methamphetamine last week.

Since 2002, Department of Homeland Security agents operated a fake university in New Jersey to catch individuals conspiring to commit visa fraud.

An investigatory stop may still be lawful even if the officer falsely cites a ground that is not supported by reasonable suspicion as the basis for the stop, the Ninth Circuit recently held.

Help the National Park Service celebrate its 100th birthday in 2016! Although its birthday is officially August 25, centennial events run all year long.