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Jeremy Warnick is the Director of Communications and Media Relations at the Cambridge, Mass. Police Department, where he develops, distributes, and manages information between the police department, the media, and the people who live, work, visit and study in Cambridge via the department’s website, social media channels, e-mail platforms, and marketing programs. He has more than 15 years of communications experience with the public sector and major corporate brands, including ESPN and LoJack Corporation. He proudly serves as a Regional Vice-Chair for the IACP (International Association of Chiefs of Police) PIO Section and as a Chair for the Middlesex County PIO Network in Massachusetts. He is married and has two daughters.

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Andrew Doyle, Sr. is a public safety professional with over 25 years of comprehensive emergency experience. Currently, Andrew is an Emergency Boat Operator assigned to the Special Operations Command of the Baltimore City Fire Department. In plain terms, he operates the fireboats. He previously worked with the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management coordinating public information and social media. Andrew has served on the Baltimore City Incident Management Team and was deployed as part of a Maryland Incident Management Team, with other emergency management professionals from Maryland, to assist Monroe County, FL following Hurricane Irma in 2017.  He was one of the first state-side instructors selected to deliver the newly created FEMA-approved Social Media for Disasters course in 2012. He continues to deliver not only the FEMA basic social media course but also the advanced ones all across America. Andrew is blending the rapidly expanding world of social media with emergency management. His knowledge and training in fire, emergency medical services, special operations, and public information training make him uniquely qualified to do so. Additionally, Andrew is an independent consultant of Social Media for Government Agencies & Private Industry and an active blogger. In his spare time, Andrew enjoys cheering for Maryland Terps, Washington Caps, Baltimore Orioles and Baltimore Ravens. For fun, he plays lacrosse. Last, but not least, he is the proud father of three children, Emily, Andrew, and Jeremy. 

Andrew's Twitter Handle -  @doyle0213

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Emily Allen Lucht is the Director of Communications at the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development. 

Previously, she was the Communications and Media Specialist at the Maryland Center for School Safety (MCSS).  She was responsible for creating and updating accessible social media content, graphic, audio, and visual designs, website content production and maintenance, the agency's branding initiatives, and developing outreach campaigns found on all their digital platforms. Ms. Allen Lucht also produced live and recorded video content for the MCSS and its many local and statewide partners.

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Emily's Twitter Account - @allen_emilym

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Emmy award-winning communications and public affairs practitioner specializing in strategic communications, media relations, legislative advocacy, and social media influence in the government, non-profit and corporate sectors. Significant expertise in crisis communications, organizational reputation management, internal & executive communications, and issue-campaign development and implementation.

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Christine has over fifteen years of experience in crisis and emergency communication as well as shaping the digital policing narrative in the UK. As one of the founding teams to bring social to the public sector, Christine has trained emergency services and government agencies across the world in how to engage with the public through digital channels.

With previous experience as a journalist and as a decorated operational police officer, Christine has worked to bridge the gap between the public and police through better communication. Her experiences have included large-scale events such as the London 2012 Olympics, the funeral of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and financial scandals, riots, and the handling of historic sex abuse cases.


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Kevin Maccioli is the Director of Media Relations and Public Information for the Middlesex (Mass.) Sheriff’s Office.

Kevin has served as the lead Public Information Officer (PIO) for the Middlesex Sheriff’s Office (MSO) since joining the office in June 2012.  He previously worked for a decade as a newspaper reporter at the Malden Evening News and Medford Daily Mercury, where he covered a wide array of local and state issues.

As Director of Media Relations and Public Information, Kevin is responsible for overseeing the MSO’s media relations and social media efforts, supporting community affairs initiatives, and working closely with other PIOs and communications directors inside and outside Middlesex County.  He has participated in the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) Jail PIO Network, helped establish the Massachusetts PIO Network, and is currently a member of the PIO Working Group for the Major County Sheriffs of America (MCSA).

Kevin is a 2002 graduate of Colby-Sawyer College (New London, N.H.), where he earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications Studies and was a member of the baseball team for two seasons as a player and two as a student assistant.

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Connor Hagan entered on duty with the FBI in July 2015 as a member of the Milwaukee Field Office’s Special Surveillance Group. In this position, he covertly surveilled and documented the activities of foreign spies and suspected terrorists to further critical national security investigations. In May 2016, he moved into the Milwaukee Field Office as an
Operational Support Technician. In this role, Connor provided administrative assistance to Special Agents and Intelligence Analysts in support of the missions of the Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, HUMINT, and Violent Crime squads.

In January 2018, he transferred to the Houston Field Office as an FBI Public Affairs Officer. Then in December 2019, he transferred to the FBI Little Rock Office. In this position, he operates as the sole FBI PAO and media representative for the state. He frequently responds to FBI critical incidents, answers a variety of daily media requests, writes numerous press releases about federal investigations, and highlights compelling FBI cases for media and public attention. He also works to maintain an active FBI Little Rock social media presence and is building relationships with numerous media, law enforcement, and community leaders throughout Arkansas.

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Maj. Kevin Sandell is an Army Public Affairs Officer serving with the Army's Office of the Chief of Public Affairs (OCPA) at the Pentagon. He has served in the military for 14 years, with 10 years as a military public affairs officer at Fort Campbell, Ky., Fort Drum, N.Y.; Fort Hood, Texas, and Shaw A.F.B., S.C. Maj. Sandell has served as the unit spokesman, communications advisor, and deputy PAO for units with over 25,000 soldiers and also served as the director of the media operations center for a large-scale, national media event at Fort Hood, Texas. He has deployed twice to Afghanistan and once to Kosovo. Maj. Sandell is a native of Cedarburg, Wisconsin, a graduate of the FEMA Advanced PIO Course, and holds degrees from Georgetown University, Regent University, and Olivet Nazarene University.

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Captain Brennan Matherne has served as Public Information Officer of the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office (Louisiana) for nearly 10 years. He has 16 total years of experience as a PIO and has been managing social media for public agencies since 2008. Most notably, he served as PIO for Lafourche Parish Government during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which directly impacted the parish’s coastline. He is a Past President of the National Information Officers Association, and he presented twice at the NIOA annual training conference on social media use for public agencies prior to serving as President. He has trained a number of PIOs, elected officials, and social media managers in the Southeast. He has assisted numerous agencies in launching social media and developing internal policies. Captain Matherne is a 2003 graduate of Nicholls State University (Thibodaux, Louisiana) with a degree in Mass Communication. In 2014, he was honored as one of the “Top 40 Under 40” in Lafourche Parish.

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 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brennanmatherne/

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Genevieve Judge joined the Sarasota Police Department in Florida in May 2013 to serve as the Public Information Officer after nearly 10 years working in TV News as a Multi-Media Journalist (MMJ) and Anchor.

As a Florida native, born and raised in Sarasota, Genevieve is responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating partnerships, community policing communication strategies, and public information campaigns to inform and share with the citizens and visitors in the City of Sarasota as well as journalists working in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Sarasota media market.  She serves in an on-call role for her agency 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and manages all social media for the Sarasota Police Department.  She’s a one-woman-PIO for her agency and is honored and humbled to work alongside the men and women, both sworn and civilian, of the Sarasota Police Department.

 Genevieve was honored as the Sarasota Police Department’s Civilian Employee of the Year in 2014 and received the 2015 ConnectedCOPS Civilian Award of Excellence for her work singularly demonstrating overall excellence in the use of social media to improve public safety.

 Genevieve is currently serving as a Representative at Large for the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) PIO Section, is a member of the National Information Officers Association (NIOA), and is a Past President of the Florida Law Enforcement PIO Association (FLEPIOA).  She holds a Bachelor of Science in Communication degree from Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts.  Her husband, Jimmy, also serves in law enforcement as a Multi-Media Crime Technician at the Tampa Police Department.

 Genevieve’s e-mail address:  [email protected]

Genevieve's Twitter:  @GenevieveJudge

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