8 US and 25 Mexico state Attorneys General participated in a Binational Attorney General Exchange in Mexico City, Mexico, October 12-13. Meetings included Mexico's Federal Attorney General Arely Gomez Gonzalez, Supreme Court Justice Eduardo Medina Mora, and SETEC head Maria de los Angeles Fromow Rangel, and touched on subjects including criminal justice reforms in Mexico, gaming regulations, telecommunications as related to law enforcement, and kidnapping and migrant protection.

 

Attorney General Victor Carrancá Bourget inaugurated the October 9th "Forum on Oral Trials: A New Way of Doing Justice in Puebla," gathering some 250 members of the Puebla legal community to learn about oral trials from experienced US litigators, and observe a mock trial enacted by personnel from the Attorney General's Office.

 

November 2-4th CWAG staff traveled with Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum to Guanajuato for a series of meetings with Guanajuato Attorney General Carlos Zamarripa and members of the Attorney General's Office and Public Security Offices. Generals Rosenblum and Zamarripa started the day with a private meeting and signing of an MOU between their two states, followed by a tour of the AGO campus that Zamarripa has created. Of special interest was the "quick response" initiatives that the AGO is undertaking to engage the community, build trust between the public and law enforcement, and address people's needs in the field and at various stations throughout the city in the hopes to see an increase of crime reporting so that investigations and prosecutions can be conducted. The AGs then visited Public Security's C5I Command Center - a state of the art center for monitoring citywide cameras and dispatching law enforcement to crimes in progress. Alvar Cabeza de Vaca, head of Public Security, met with the Attorneys General to provide an overview of the state's efforts to protect their citizens.

 

Criminalist Ken Jones recently retired from the Portland (Oregon) Police Bureau after more than 25 years of service. Ken, a frequent contributor to CWAG training sessions on a variety of investigative techniques, is now a Public Safety Group Training and Service Operations Manager with Leica GeoSystems. CWAG thanks Ken for his enthusiasm and support, and wishes him all the best in his new position.

 

Frequent CWAG instructor Kay Winfree, partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and former Maryland Chief Deputy Attorney General, contributed to the Latin American Advisor's featured Q&A "Do New Reforms Make Mexico's Courts More Fair?" along with distinguished observers Octavio Rodríguez Ferreira, coordinator of the Justice in Mexico program at the University of San Diego; David A. Shirk, associate professor and director of the master of arts program in international relations at the University of San Diego; and Ernesto Canales, founding partner at Canales y Socios Abogados, S.C. in Monterrey, Mexico. Check out her comments here.
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