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Introduction to Search Warrants “How to Write Them”
March 25-26, 2014
Chairman
Alcides Rivera
LASD
Vice-Chairman
Ernie Collaso
Baldwin Park P.D.
Secretary
Barbara Wiggins
La Verne PD (Retired)
Treasurer
Robert Lund
LASD
Sergeant-at-Arms
Joe Allen
Glendale P.D.
Training Coordinator
Tom Heffner
Hawthorne P.D.
Training Committee
Rosie Samaniego
FBI (Retired)
Mark Montoya
LASD
Manny Serenil
LBPD
Awards Chairman
Tom Layton
State Bar Assoc.
Past Region Chair
Mark Brewster
LASD
Jim Royer
Hawthorne P.D.
Glenn Walsh
LASD
Special Events
Jim Royer
Hawthorne P.D.
Maureen O’Connell
FBI
Tuesday & Wednesday
0800-1700
POST Certified Plan IV (8-Hrs) 8790-22273
Course Description: This is a comprehensive 16 hour search warrant course designed to enable
anyone in law enforcement to leave this class with the basic knowledge and confidence it takes to
successfully write a search warrant. If you plan on becoming an investigator, or are currently an
investigator and want to learn more about the fundamentals of a search warrant, this class is for
you!!!! This course is an interactive class and every student will write an entire search warrant
from start to finish by the completion of this course.
Topics you will learn:
Types of Search Warrant Affidavits, Search Warrant preparation, Who can get a Search
Warrant?, What can you seize?, Items to be searched, Expertise of the Affiant, Probable
Cause Declarations, Hobbs Sealing Requests, Applicable Statutes of Search Warrants and
Case Law.
Instructor: James Hoffman is a Deputy District Attorney with San Bernardino County District
Attorney’s Office since 1997. Mr. Hoffman has handled a variety of assignments within the District
Attorney’s Office including: misdemeanors, felonies, juvenile proceedings, MDO cases and
narcotics cases. Mr. Hoffman developed a specialty in narcotics prosecutions after being assigned
to the Street Enforcement Team in 2003. In 2007, he was assigned to as the Major Narcotics
Vendor Prosecutor (MNVP). As the MNVP, he prosecuted complex narcotics cases dealing with
informants and wiretaps. In 2012 through present, Mr. Hoffman has been assigned as the County’s
Electronic Intercept Coordinator handling the initiation maintenance and disposition of all wiretaps in
San Bernardino County. Mr. Hoffman is a regular instructor with CNOA and has previously taught
Confidential Informants / privileges, Search Warrants, Wall Stops, PC 1538.5 Motions, Warrantless
Searches, Wiretaps, Search and Seizure, Meth Lab Prosecution, and Protecting Confidential
Information. Because of Mr. Hoffman’s dedication and hard work as a Deputy District Attorney, he
has received the CNOA Region 5 Prosecutor of the Year Award in both 2008 and 2012.
Location:
Santa Monica Main Library located at 601 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica
Class will be held in the “Martin Luther King Auditorium”.
Parking:
Underground parking structure can be accessed from 7th Street between Santa
Monica Blvd / Arizona Ave. Park on levels P2 or P3, validations will be provided in
class
RESERVATIONS
(Sworn Law Enforcement Only)
Reservations for this class can be made by going to http://www.cnoa.org then click on the Training Calendar
tab, then Region 3 and complete the on-line registration form. Seats are limited. Payment need to be made
prior to the Class by March 7, 2014. Payments can be mailed to CNOA Region III – P.O Box 33226, Los
Angeles CA, 90033. Make checks payable to CNOA. FREE CLASS CERTIFICATES WILL NOT BE
ACCEPTED FOR THIS CLASS.
Cost: Payment needs to be received by March 7, 2014. Credit Cards excepted by emailing
cnoaregion3@hotmail.com or calling the 213-248-0676.
Members: $70.00
Non-Members: $90.00
New Membership & Class: $170.00
FOR BETTER NARCOTIC ENFORCEMENT