"We are grateful to have these exceptional professionals form our first law enforcement advisory committee. They will be very helpful in maintaining and improving our seminar content, meeting the needs of the public servants we train and helping the NLC defend children and families." said Richard R. Whidden, Jr., Executive Director of the National Law Center.

The inaugural members of the NLC Advisory Committee are:

Rick Castro - San Diego County (CA) Sheriff's Office

Rick Castro is one of the nation's leading experts in law enforcement best practices on investigating human trafficking. Rick has been with the Sheriff's Department for approximately eighteen years.  In 1996, he worked in the Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving Unit.  It was during this time that he began to investigate commercial and sexual exploitation of children and adults in North County (San Diego). 

Rick has tremendous insight into the complexities of sexual exploitation and human trafficking, and the organizations that run them.  He is currently working with social services, local, state, federal, and international organizations to combat and address this evil.  Rick draws his knowledge, passion, and dedication from his personal experience in interviewing and assisting victims.  Because of his expertise, Rick is a trainer and facilitator on "Human Trafficking" to law enforcement, social services, and community groups throughout the United States, and at the international level.

Charles Cohen - Indiana State Police

Chuck Cohen is one of the nation's foremost trainers on social networks and law enforcement best practices investigating cyber-criminals. Chuck's formal education includes a Masters in Business Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University, and an undergraduate degree from Indiana University with a double major in Criminal Justice and Psychology. 

He is a Lieutenant serving the Indiana State Police, where he has been employed for thirteen years.  He is currently the Commander of the Special Investigation and Criminal Intelligence Sections.  In this capacity, Lt. Cohen is responsible for the cyber crime, white collar crime, vehicle crime, and crimes against children units along with overseeing the department's overt and covert criminal intelligence function.  He is cross-designated as a Special Deputy United States Marshal. 

Before his current assignment, Chuck spent five years assigned to the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Indiana, where he conducted federal and state political corruption, organized economic crime, and cyber crime investigations.  In the past, he has been assigned to various specialized investigative and enforcement assignments.

Chuck speaks nationally on topics including cyber crime, online fraud, money laundering, corruption investigation, and the investigation of skilled criminal offenders.  He is an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University Bloomington, where he teaches Foundations of Criminal Investigation.   He is a published author, including peer-reviewed material and the cover article for the March, 2007 Police Chief Magazine.

Lieutenant Cohen has collateral duties and training in areas including:  hostage/crisis negotiation, vehicle crash reconstruction, defensive tactics instruction, and intermediate and chemical weapons instruction. 

Lisa Holman - United States Postal Inspector Service

Lisa Holman is one of the best law enforcement professionals defending children across the nation. She began her career in federal law enforcement in 1983 as a Forensic Chemist with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).  While at the DEA she served as a member of the Clandestine Laboratory Raid Team. 

In December 1989, Postal Inspector Holman accepted a position with the United States Postal Inspection Service Forensic Laboratory in Washington, DC where she not only conducted forensic examinations, but trained hundreds of local, state, and federal agents in drugs of abuse, drug field testing and clandestine laboratory safety. 

In 1999, Inspector Holman was assigned to the Postal Inspection Service Office of Congressional and Public Affairs in Washington, DC until her appointment as a Postal Inspector.  Serving in Charlotte, NC since 2000, Inspector Holman has been assigned to the Charlotte Division Child Exploitation Team. 

In 2005, Inspector Holman, as well as other members of the NC Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, was selected to receive an award for Child Exploitation Case of the Year as presented by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Congress, and President Bush.

Inspector Holman has been a member of the North Carolina Internet Crimes against Children Task Force since 2000. Inspector Holman is currently assigned as a Child Pornography/Adult Obscenity Team Leader for the Postal Inspection Service.

Frank Kardasz - Phoenix (AZ) Police Department / Arizona Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce

Dr. Frank Kardasz leads one of the nation's most successful Internet crimes against children task forces. He is the project director and task force commander for the Arizona ICAC Task Force. Frank's law enforcement career began in 1977 as an officer in Michigan.  He served there until 1984 when he moved to Arizona and joined the Phoenix police department. Frank now serves as a sergeant with Phoenix P.D. where he has supervised over 3,500 investigations of Internet crimes against children involving over 250 arrests. 

Frank has earned a bachelors degree in criminal justice, a masters degree in public administration and a doctorate in educational leadership.  His dissertation was entitled, Ethics training for law enforcement: A study of current practices.  He serves the ICAC program as an instructor/consultant with Fox Valley Technical College and travels nationwide teaching Internet crime investigations techniques to law enforcement officers.  Frank is also a part-time faculty member with the University of Phoenix.  His writings have appeared in various law enforcement publications and he has lectured children, community groups and law enforcement officers nationwide regarding Internet crime prevention and investigation.

Raymond Massi - Law Enforcement Coordinator United States Attorney's Office District of New Jersey

Ray Massi brings a wealth of local law enforcment service and training experience to the advisory committee. Ray is in his 6^th year as the United States Attorney's Office's Law Enforcement Coordinator in the southern vicinages of New Jersey. He is the liaison for the United States Attorney to local law enforcement agencies, criminal task forces, training and the coordination of multi-agency investigations. Ray coordinates the establishment of law enforcement and community collaborations, development of comprehensive strategies, conducts and facilitates training for law enforcement and the community. Ray retired at the end of 2001 as Captain from the Camden City Police Department where he served as Commander of the Investigative Bureau, Youth Services Division, Gangs and HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Traffic Areas) Task Force.

Ray is founder of the Multi-Agency Life Line (MALL) - A law enforcement centered outreach and prevention project designed to address the root causes of deviant behavior among youth and to strengthen families. Founded in 1993, the MALL consisted of a collaboration of 30 law enforcement, educational, corporate and social service agencies, as well as a Youth Advisory Team and full time family therapists committed to assisting and empowering inner city youth. The MALL continues as a youth services program in the Camden Police Department. Ray is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University and is currently finishing a Masters program.

Irving Porter -Dallas Police Department

Irving Porter leads one of the nation's most successful sex offender management programs in the nation. Sgt. Porter has served for the last seventeen years with the Dallas Police Department in various capacities: Patrol, Deployment/Fugitive Squad, Interactive Community Policing, Police Recruiter, Gang Unit Supervisor and also as the Supervisor of the Sex Offender Compliance Squad. Sgt. Porter has also served in the U.S. Air Force, both on active duty and in the reserves for the last 24 years. While in the Air Force, Sgt. Porter has served as security police, an Air Force Ranger, in the Office of Special Investigations, and dignitary protection. He is a veteran of Operation Desert Storm and has served two tours in Iraq. He is currently a special agent in the Air Force reserves in the Office of Special Investigations.

Sergeant Porter holds an Associate's Degree in Industrial Security from Community College of the Air Force, a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice from Dallas Baptist University is currently working toward a Master's Degree in Organizational Management/Conflict Resolution at Dallas Baptist University. He is a certified TECLEOSE Instructor and holds more than 24 law enforcement teaching certificates. He has also attended Air War College (USAF).

In recognition of Sergeant Porter's commitment to service, he has received more than 75 police commendations, the Dallas Police Rookie of the Year Award, more than 40 military commendations and the United States Air Force Officer of the Year Award.

Brook Schaub - Saint Paul (MN) Police (retired)

Brook T. Schaub is one of the most respected law enforcement trainers on child exploitation crimes in the nation. Brook is a retired sergeant from the Saint Paul Police Department (MN). His experience includes assignments to the Special Investigations Unit (Intelligence), Vice/Narcotics Unit, Training Unit, and Sex Crimes Unit. Mr. Schaub wrote the initial Federal grant for the Minnesota Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, and is a Seized Computer Evidence Recovery Specialist. He currently is a consultant on various Internet crimes, juvenile prostitution, computer forensics, as well as missing and abducted children, to local law enforcement and the FBI.

He is a member of the Team Adam and Project Alert programs of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. He frequently is rapidly deployed on abducted child cases to assist local and federal law enforcement. Mr. Schaub also performs cold case reviews on missing children.

Mr. Schaub has taught various courses of instruction for such groups as the FBI National Academy Associates, the International Homicide Investigator Association, the Minnesota State Bar Association, American Bar Association, University of Alabama Birmingham, Fox Valley Technical College, High Tech Crime Investigators Associations, and the National Law Center. He has taught Internet Crimes to Law Enforcement officials in Europe, the Middle East, and Australia.

Mr. Schaub is a Dean's Scholar graduate of the Administrative Officer's Course of the Southern Police Institute at the University of Louisville, KY.