- University News Archive - 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/tag/fbi/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Tue, 16 Oct 2018 16:21:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 FBI Special Agent Shun Turner to speak Oct. 18 at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/2018/10/16/fbi-special-agent-shun-turner-to-speak-oct-18-at-ua-little-rock/ Tue, 16 Oct 2018 16:21:37 +0000 /news/?p=72330 ... FBI Special Agent Shun Turner to speak Oct. 18 at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock]]> Shun Turner, supervisory special agent for FBI Little Rock鈥檚 cyber squad, will be on campus to present and discuss topics related to National Cyber Security Month on Thursday, Oct. 18, in the Student Services Center 104 auditorium from noon to 1 p.m. This is the 15th year that October has been observed as National Cyber Security Awareness Month. The observance, an initiative by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance, focuses on educating consumers, students, young people, and businesses of all sizes about the importance of staying safe online. The presentation is sponsored by 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 Information Technology Services and is free and open to the entire campus.]]> FBI specialist to discuss careers in digital evidence /news-archive/2018/08/27/fbi-jobs/ Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:29:39 +0000 /news/?p=71616 ... FBI specialist to discuss careers in digital evidence]]> Rebecca Passmore, an information technology specialist and senior forensic examiner and training program coordinator with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will be at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock on Friday to share information about the different types of FBI careers related to the handling of digital evidence. The talk will take place 3-4 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 31, in the Engineering and Information Technology (EIT) Auditorium. Parking is available in Lot 13. Passmore will discuss education and experience needed to work with the FBI as well as how to apply for positions. She will also provide a case presentation on digital evidence as an example on how different positions in digital evidence participate in an investigation. Passmore has worked with many investigators during her 21 years with the FBI, including 14 years assigned to the Computer Analysis Response Team. She has supported many investigations in the area of evidence collection and digital forensics. She has a bachelor鈥檚 degree in information technology and a master鈥檚 degree in digital forensics and cyber investigations.]]> Assistant Chief Smith becomes first 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock officer to complete FBI National Academy /news-archive/2018/02/14/assistant-chief-smith-becomes-first-ua-little-rock-officer-complete-fbi-national-academy/ Wed, 14 Feb 2018 22:49:32 +0000 /news/?p=69411 ... Assistant Chief Smith becomes first 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock officer to complete FBI National Academy]]> After 23 years on the job, Assistant Chief Johnny Smith, 52, of Little Rock, has become a familiar presence on campus, earning the moniker of 鈥淥fficer Friendly鈥 for his upbeat, polite attitude while protecting the university community.聽 鈥淚 love the environment, the community, and the students, faculty, and staff at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock,鈥 he said. 鈥淚 have students that have come back after 20 years and ask if I am still here. The students sometimes call me Officer Friendly because that is how we treat everybody. The place has become home.鈥 Smith has become the first police officer from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock to complete the prestigious , a professional course of study for U.S. and international law enforcement managers nominated by their agency heads because of demonstrated leadership qualities. President Donald Trump gave the commencement speech at his Dec. 15, 2017, graduation ceremony at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia. The 11-week program鈥攚hich provides coursework in intelligence theory, terrorism and terrorist mindsets, management science, law, behavioral science, law enforcement communication, and forensic science鈥攕erves to improve the administration of justice in police departments and agencies at home and abroad and to raise law enforcement standards, knowledge, and cooperation worldwide. 鈥淚t was a privilege and honor for me to nominate Assistant Chief Johnny Smith to attend the FBI National Academy,鈥 Chief Regina Carter said. 鈥淢y goal when I was appointed as chief was to make sure our department gets the recognition it deserves and to make sure my officers achieve the level of success that I know they have within them. Smith is bringing back strong leadership skills that he learned at the academy and some new training that we can implement at the organizational level.鈥 Smith is thankful to Carter for the opportunity to attend the FBI National Academy. “Chief Carter is dedicated to making sure the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Police Department is up to date with the latest training,” Smith said. “She is always supportive of officers being trained to the best of their abilities and encourages us to bring that training back to share with the community. She herself has attended the Arkansas Leader Training Program, which is the prerequisite to going to the FBI National Academy. Chief Carter and I have known each other for more than 20 years, and I couldn’t ask for a better chief.” Smith has served with the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Police Department since 1994, and he is currently pursuing a bachelor鈥檚 degree in criminal justice as well. Smith is married and the father of two sons. He began his career in law enforcement as a cadet with the Little Rock Police Department in 1984 and 1985 and later worked as an officer with the Wrightsville Police Department from 1990 to 1994. 鈥淭he FBI Academy is one of the biggest accomplishments that any law enforcement supervisor can receive,鈥 Smith said. 鈥淚 have been on the waiting list for four years. Only two people from Arkansas get selected out of the entire state to attend the academy.鈥 Smith earned 17 college credits at the academy and learned skills in leadership, public speaking, media relations, leading at-risk employees, and fitness in law enforcement, even developing a physical fitness and nutrition program for the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Police Department.聽 Smith鈥檚 fondest memories come from completion of the final test of the academy. Known as the 鈥淵ellow Brick Road,鈥 the fitness test is a grueling 6.1-mile run through a hilly, wooded trail built by the Marines. Along the way, the participants must climb over walls, run through creeks, jump through simulated windows, scale rock faces with ropes, crawl under barbed wire in muddy water, and maneuver across a cargo net. When (and if) the students complete this difficult test, they receive an actual yellow brick to memorialize their achievement. 鈥淭he week before the challenge, I hurt my knee playing water polo,鈥 Smith said. 鈥淚t had swollen to a huge size, but nobody was going to stop me from running the Yellow Brick Road. I was in a lot of pain, but I was determined to do it. One guy broke his ankle but still completed the course. It鈥檚 just that important.鈥 The greatest asset Smith received from his time at the FBI National Academy is the friendships he built with his graduating class. 鈥淭he academy had 224 men and women from the U.S. and 24 men and women from other countries,鈥 he said. 鈥淭hey are like brothers and sisters for life. There were 17 university police chiefs there that I can ask for advice. I now have friends in different states and agencies. It鈥檚 a great tool.鈥 Following graduation, each officer has the opportunity to join the FBI National Academy Associates, Inc., a dynamic organization of more than 16,000 law enforcement professionals who actively work to continue developing higher levels of competency, cooperation, and integrity across the law enforcement community. Now back in Little Rock, Smith is looking forward to implementing the skills he learned at the FBI National Academy to better serve the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock community. 鈥淭his is what it is all about, to take all the leadership skills and training we learned and to bring it back,鈥 he said. 鈥淚t makes you a better leader and gives you better training so you can train your supervisors to be better. It gives you tools you can use to be a better law enforcement provider. I鈥檓 proud to be a 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock police officer,鈥 Smith said. 鈥淚 enjoy being out here. I will continue to serve, and I look forward to making our police department and community better and safer.鈥 ]]> Montague mother and son duo say education is the key to breaking barriers /news-archive/2017/02/24/david-raye-montague-breaking-barriers/ Fri, 24 Feb 2017 18:30:30 +0000 /news/?p=66437 ... Montague mother and son duo say education is the key to breaking barriers]]> David Montague, director of eLearning and professor of criminal justice at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, grew up believing in education.聽 鈥淢y mom certainly made me believe I could do anything I wanted as long as I had the skill sets and the determination,鈥 he said. 鈥淚 saw her having to fight and fight, and I had to deal with a lot of that myself.鈥 David鈥檚 mother, Raye Jean Jordan Montague, 82, of Little Rock, provided a great role model for her son. She is an internationally registered professional engineer with the U.S. Navy credited with creating the first computer-generated rough draft of a U.S. naval ship. The process had previously taken two years. She accomplished the task in fewer than 19 hours, when her department had been given one month to finish the job. Montague held a civilian equivalent rank of captain and was the U.S. Navy鈥檚 first female program manager of ships. Among many other honors, Montague was awarded the U.S. Navy鈥檚 Meritorious Civilian Service Award in 1972, the navy鈥檚 third-highest honorary award. 鈥淭he secretary of the Navy nominated me to be the federal woman of the year, because he said I had revolutionized the design process for all naval ships and submarines,鈥 she said. Raye Montague was recognized as a real-life “Hidden Figure” on the Feb. 20 live episode of Good Morning America, where she had a surprise visit from Janelle Monae, who portrayed Mary Jackson in the movie. Jackson played a crucial role in helping NASA send astronaut John Glenn to orbit the Earth in 1962. Since Raye Montague was unable to fly to the Good Morning America show, ABC sent a limo and two chauffeurs who drove Raye, David, and David鈥檚 13-year-old daughter Riley to New York. 鈥淭here were stacks of people just waiting to get into the studio,鈥 Raye Montague said. 鈥淧eople kept wanting to take selfies with me.鈥 For David Montague, having his daughter see her grandmother honored on live television reinforced the lessons he is teaching her about the value of education and hard work. 鈥淚 have always raised her to know that she can do anything and be anything. Right now, she is talking about getting a Ph.D. and being a quantum chemist,鈥 he said.

Raising him right

After separating from David鈥檚 father when her son was just 9 weeks old, Raye Montague was determined to encourage her son the same way her mother did for her. 鈥淢y mother had told me I could do anything I wanted to do even though I had all these obstacles,鈥 she said. 鈥淚 was a woman and black and had a Southern-segregated school education, but I could do anything and be anything I wanted, provided I was educated.鈥 The day David turned 3, Raye Montague enrolled him in a Montessori school, where he took French, geography, biology, and mathematics. When David graduated at 6, the budding academic thought he was headed to college instead of first grade, because his mother told him he was going to college when he graduated. 鈥淚 forgot to tell him there were 12 more years,鈥 she said with a laugh. Her son eventually attended the prestigious Morehouse College, even though the fact that he only applied to one college worried his mother to death. 鈥淚 told David you can鈥檛 just apply to one school, and Morehouse was very difficult to get into,鈥 she said. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 the school Martin Luther King Jr. attended. I was busy chasing around trying to find friends in other schools to see if I could get him in if he didn鈥檛 make it, but he got into Morehouse.鈥 Raye Montague promised her son she would support his education as long as she never had to hire a lawyer to get him out of jail. After receiving a Master of Arts in Crime and Commerce at The George Washington University, David Montague eventually went into law enforcement. He completed federal investigations for 14 years in law enforcement and intelligence capacities working for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration as a federal drug diversion investigator and as a consultant on national security matters with U.S. Investigations Services, Inc. From 1995 to 1997, he served as the senior investigator on the United States JFK Assassination Records Review Board. As a professor at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, David Montague is active in the community, volunteering as a deputy sheriff in Arkansas, participating in a prison rehabilitation program, serving on several discipline-related boards, and a graduate of both the FBI Citizens鈥 Academy and the LeadAR Program. David Montague credits his spirit of giving back to his mother, who also volunteered with the mentorship program for inmates through 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 community re-entry program. 鈥淚 feel it is important to give back and give people hope to get an education,鈥 he said. 鈥淚t made me want to volunteer to be a deputy sheriff in Pulaski County. I have been paid enough in the quality of life I have and the experiences that I have been exposed to. I learned a lot of that from my mom. She still reached out to help other people and saw the importance of helping other people.鈥 Raye Montague eventually spent 33 years working for the Navy. When she retired in 1990, she was presented with a flag that had flown over the nation鈥檚 capitol in her honor. She was most grateful that her mother, who encouraged her to be all she could be, was in attendance. 鈥淐an you imagine a little girl from Little Rock receiving such an honor from a grateful nation? My mother, who was the wind beneath my wings, was there to see it.鈥 Raye Montague also gave a presentation at the Little Rock FBI field office on Feb. 23. Members of the U.S. Navy will visit Little Rock next week to interview Raye, who will be featured in an upcoming edition of, the official magazine of the U.S. Navy. Raye Montague is an internationally recognized engineer in the U.S. and Canada, even though she does not hold an engineering degree. She earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in business from Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal School, now the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, because the engineering school at the University of Arkansas did not accept minorities at the time. In the end, Raye Montague credits education with being the secret to her successful career. 鈥淵ou can do anything you want to do provided you are educated.,鈥 she said. 鈥淵ou can be anything you want to be. There is no such thing as women鈥檚 work or men鈥檚 work. You might have to work harder. In my case, I had to run circles around people, but, eventually, I went from the bottom to the top, essentially, with the Navy.鈥 Pictured in the upper right photo are David Montague (left) and his mother, Raye Montague (right), at her home in Little Rock. Photo by Lonnie Timmons III/糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Communications.]]>