While typical law enforcement intelligence databases can be quite extensive, open source intelligence/social media websites such as Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat can be crucial to identifying suspects, trends, as well as gathering overall intelligence. This course will be an introduction on how to utilize these websites to make your cases stronger, identify suspects and prepare for incidents with information that is willingly posted on the internet. Topics include creating and developing confidential social media accounts; utilizing EXIF and metadata from photos and videos; utilizing social media to identify subjects and gather intelligence; properly documenting social media pages for investigations and court; preservation of data; and submitting applicable court orders.