• First Meeting of the National Major Gang Task Force at the University of Houston

• 1st Annual Training Conference at Hartford, Connecticut

• Dale Welling, Federal Bureau of Prisons (Retired) becomes first Executive Director

• 2nd Annual Training Conference held in Houston, Texas

• 3rd Annual Training Conference held in Colorado Springs, Colorado

 

• NMGTF achieves 501 (c) 3, non-profit status

 

• NMGTF website is established at www.NMGTF.org

• 4th Annual Training Conference held in Daytona Beach, Florida

• Verizon becomes major corporate sponsor

 

• 5th Annual Training Conference held in Boston, Massachusetts

NMGTF establishes Training Division at EKU, Tommy Norris, Federal Bureau of Prisons (Retired) becomes first Director

 

• 6th Annual Training Conference held in Indianapolis, Indiana

• Dale Welling retires as Executive Director. Ed Cohn, Indiana Department of Correction (Retired) succeeds him

 

• 7th Annual Training Conference held at Foxwoods Resort in Mashantucket, Connecticut

 

• First free standing office for the NMGTF established in Indianapolis

 

• First Task Force publication "From the Street to the Prison: Understanding and Responding to Gangs

 

• Job task analysis of Institution Security Threat Group Coordinator completed

• Association of State Correctional Administrators asked by Executive Director to appoint a State Coordinator to the Task Force

 

• First State Coordinator meeting held at EKU

 

• 8th Annual Training Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia

 

• National Gang Survey completed

• Second Task Force publication: "A Study of Gangs and Security Threat Groups in America's Adult Prisons and Jails."

 

• Online certification program for security threat group coordinators pending
• 9th Annual Training Conference held in Cincinnati, OH
• Security Threat Assessment planning with National Alliance of Gang Investigators Association
• Third Task Force publication: "Understanding Gangs & Gang Processes."

•NMGTF Training Division transferred to National Headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana
• Second state coordinator's meeting held at Park City, Utah
• 10th Annual Training conference held in Denver, Colorado
• Developed a format for establishing a gang policy for prisons and jails with a related renunciation program
• Submitted recommended standard on gangs and Security Threat Groups to the American Correctional Association

• 11th Annual Training Conference held in Little Rock, Arkansas
• Fourth Task Force publication: Juvenile Violence: A Guide to Understanding Juvenile Violence in America
• Gang Standard promulgated by American Correctional Association

• 12th Annual Training Conference held in Indianapolis, Indiana

• 13th Annual Training Conference held in Reno, Nevada
• Fifth Task Force publication: Tattoos - A Source for Identifying Information on Gang and STG Members

• 14th Annual Training to be held in Louisville, Kentucky