AUSA Laurel White Receives FBI Community Leadership Award

The Sacramento FBI announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Laurel White is the recipient of the 2008 FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award. The award, given annually, recognizes the achievements of individuals or organizations in the area of drug and violence education and prevention. Ms. White has been a federal prosecutor in Sacramento for 19 years and for the past nine years has focused primarily on the prosecution of Crimes Against Children and Internet predators.

For three years running the Eastern District of California has led the nation in indictments and convictions of Internet predators. Ms. White has been one of the top AUSAs in this field and is considered by all to be one of the most aggressive and competent prosecutors of Crimes Against Children. In addition to her outstanding work as a prosecutor, AUSA White is also the Project Safe Childhood Coordinator for the Eastern District of California. She has led the charge to educate parents, children and schools across the district. Acknowledging that “we’re not going to prosecute our way out of this crisis,” Ms. White has focused, most often on her own time, on crime preventions efforts and education.

AUSA White works tirelessly with the media, school systems, and community groups to teach anyone who will listen about the dangers of the Internet, and more importantly, what we can do to keep children safe. Working with the FBI, local law enforcement, NBC affiliate KCRA, Elk Grove Unified School District, and the California Coalition for Internet Safety, AUSA White helped create a one hour DVD which includes safety information for teens and parents. AUSA White has distributed many copies of these DVDs by hand at school and community forums that she has participated in personally throughout the State of California. She has also recently been involved in developing a partnership with private industry to train and certify computer industry personnel in the field of Internet safety for children. These newly certified presenters will then act as force-multipliers to further the efforts of educating as many people as possible about the dangers of the Internet.

The Director’s Leadership Award has been in existence since 1990 and last year Dexter McNamara, Director of the Interfaith Services Bureau, received the award.

 

 

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