| FBI Denver Citizens Academy Alumni Association |
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UPCOMING EVENTS!
2024 Chapter Challenge! We kicked off this year's challenge at the February Chapter meeting. If you missed it, this is a great way to get involved that is easy, free and on your own time! Being part of the FBIDVRCAAA means that you likely have an interest in and appreciation for law enforcement. We want to give you an opportunity to acknowledge, recognize and thank law enforcement officers and agents and other first responders for all they do to keep us safe! We have created five different note cards that you can easily carry in your wallet and hand out to police officers, FBI agents, or other peacekeepers in the community to thank them for their service. Our challenge is to have each member hand out 5-10 of these cards this year (goal of 1,500 cards). Members took 250 cards at the Chapter meeting, so we are off to a good start! If you would like to participate in the Challenge, please click below to request as many cards as you'd like to hand out, and we will either send them to you or have them for you at the next Chapter meeting! THANK YOU! | FBI DENVER
Sextortion: A Growing Threat Targeting Minors The FBI wants to warn parents, educators, caregivers, and children about the dangers of online activity that may lead to the solicitation and enticement of a minor to engage in sexual acts. Sextortion involves an offender coercing a minor to create and send sexually explicit images or video. An offender gets sexually explicit material from the child, then threatens to release that compromising material unless the victim produces more. These offenders are seeking sexual gratification. Financially motivated sextortion is a criminal act that involves an offender coercing a minor to create and send sexually explicit material. Victims are typically males between the ages of 14 to 17, but any child can become a victim. | FBI NATIONAL
Internet Crime Complaint Center (ic3) Today’s FBI is an intelligence-driven and threat focused national security organization with both intelligence and law enforcement responsibilities. We are focused on protecting the American people from terrorism, espionage, cyber-attacks, and major criminal threats which are increasingly emanating from our digitally connected world. To do that, the FBI leverages the IC3 as a mechanism to gather intelligence on internet crime so that we can provide the public and our many partners with information, services, support, training, and leadership to stay ahead of the threat. To promote public awareness and as part of its prevention mission, the IC3 aggregates the submitted data and produces an annual report on the trends impacting the public as well as routinely providing intelligence reports about trends. The success of these efforts is directly related to the quality of the data submitted by the public through the www.ic3.gov interface. Their efforts help the IC3, and the FBI better protect their fellow citizens. Click below to see the national report as well as state reports. |
RECENT EVENTS December was an exciting and busy month for active members of our Chapter! We give THANKS to those members and their friends/families who participated and/or volunteered for these events and express gratitude for your generosity! First, Mark Michalek, Special Agent in Charge of the Denver FBI Field Office, joined our year-end Chapter meeting for a private dinner and awards presentation to six outstanding alumni (check out photos on the Alumni Awards page!). Later that evening, members and their guests enjoyed a hilarious evening of stand-up comedy performed by the renowned impressionist, Frank Caliendo, Jr.! Next, 35 Chapter members and their families joined ranks with the FBI Denver Field Office and the Denver Children's Foundation for the 2023 Christmas for Kids event! Together, we picked up, drove, then took a record 200+ children shopping for gifts! Then we helped wrap the gifts so the children could surprise their families when they returned home! The event culminated with Santa's arrival by helicopter, and he gave each child a gift of their own. Oh, what a feeling! Finally, 42 Chapter members plus their families joined dozens of others at Fairmount Cemetery as part of Wreaths Across America. After a touching remembrance ceremony represented by each branch of the U.S. military, we lay wreaths on each of the hundreds of headstones and grave markers of military veterans. To honor their service, each veteran's name was spoken allowed before a wreath was placed on their grave. We are grateful to these men and women who sacrificed for our country. | Christmas for Kids! - December 9, 2023 Wreaths Across America - December 16, 2023 |
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