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                                          Sue Webber-Brown

                                           Executive Director

            Drug Endangered Children Training & Advocacy Center

            Butte Co. DA Investigator/Narcotics Detective (Retired)

Sue Webber-Brown retired as a District Attorney Investigator for the County of Butte after 26 years in law enforcement.  Sue’s first 7 years were spent in Welfare Fraud where she was often co-assigned to the Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force (BINTF).  As a result, the drug unit developed an expertise in combining drug, welfare fraud and child maltreatment investigations into one case. In 1991 the DA transferred Sue to the drug task force where she spent 19 years as a Detective/Agent.  

Sue Webber-Brown was responsible for the investigation of major narcotic cases, welfare fraud and child endangerment.  Sue is accomplished in the practical aspects of interviewing and interrogation, having participated in more than 2300 investigations.  Sue has rescued over 3000 children from hazardous homes where drugs were used, sold, or manufactured. Sue is a recognized expert in the California and Arizona courts and has testified before Congress in the field of child endangerment due to drugs.

Sue is responsible for the development and successful "Drug Endangered Children" (D.E.C.) Program, the first of its kind in the United States.  Sue was appointed by the Governor's Office of Criminal Justice Planning (O.C.J.P.) to an Ad hoc Study Group on drug endangered children and co-wrote a training guide disseminated statewide.  Sue was a founding board member of the California D.E.C. Alliance, founding board member of the National D.E.C. Alliance and has published numerous articles.  Sue has provided D.E.C. training to over 50,000 in 44 other states, including the Office of National Drug Control Policy in Washington D.C., the Department of Justice Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, National Interagency Civil-Military Institute, the United States Attorney’s Office, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.  Sue and the D.E.C. Program have been featured in the LA Times, Sacramento Bee, Washington Post, numerous other newspapers, and publications, on the Montel William’s show and in the November 2002 issue of People magazine.

In 2000, Sue received the “California Victim Services and Restitution Award” from the Governor and the “Law Enforcement Leadership Award” from the California Attorney General. Sue was selected as the 2003 “Investigator of the Year” by the California District Attorney’s Investigators Association.  On May 25, 2004, Sue received the “Award of Distinction” from the California Peace Officers’ Association, 2005 was awarded “Narcotics Officer of the Year” from Region VIII of CNOA, and in 2007 received the “Open Arms Award” from the University of Kentucky. 

In December 2008 Sue met  with President George W. Bush at  the Capital  in D.C. where she was

honored for her work with the D.E.C. program and in December 2008 received Butte College’s

 “Outstanding Alumni of the Year”.   

In September 2013, Sue was presented with the “Distinguished Service Award” and inducted into the Oroville Union High School District Hall of Fame.  On November 22, 2014, during the opening ceremonies of the 50^th Annual CNOA training conference, Sue and DEC-TAC staff were each presented with awards for “Outstanding Contribution’s” to the state and nation for training on the topic of Drug Endangered Children.

For 15 years, Sue, as a private consultant, has been the Executive Director of the Drug Endangered Children Training and Advocacy Center which was initially established in 2009 under a state grant (California Emergency Management Agency) to train all multi-jurisdiction drug task forces (MJDTF) within the state. Currently DEC training, resources, and consultation is available upon request and provided throughout the state to all first responder agencies, and multidiscipline personnel.

Additionally, Sue is a DEC topic expert and consultant to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, High Intensity Drug Traffic Area’s, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, to train law enforcement, child protective services, probation, parole, health professionals and prosecutors, on how to investigate and process evidence on welfare fraud, other crimes, and drug endangered children, while addressing the needs of these child victims of drug related crime.

Sue is a DEC topic expert and consultant to local, state and federal agencies. She trains law enforcement, child protective services, probation, parole, health professionals and prosecutors, on how to investigate drug crimes with children, while addressing the needs of these child victims.