Intravaia Risk Management Group LLC would like to express our sincere gratitude and appreciation for all the clients we have had the privilege to work with in the past, present and future.
08/22/24: Viewpoint Discrimination Case Win: A judge has ruled that a Pennsylvania school district violated a teacher's constitutional rights by falsely implying his involvement in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. The teacher, a former Seattle resident now living in Pennsylvania, was the target of a public smear campaign led by two Democratic school board members, despite his spotless teaching record. The campaign was driven by what the teacher described as "ideological hatred." The incident has severely damaged his reputation and ended his teaching career.
The jury awarded punitive damages, a decision that should serve as a warning to all government employees. Punitive damages must be paid personally by the defendants, not reimbursed by the employer. In this case, Lisa Conover and former board president Nancy Wilt were found to have acted "maliciously or wantonly." Conover was ordered to pay $6,000 in punitive damages, while Wilt was ordered to pay $500. The judge reminded the jurors that the teacher's attendance at a rally, his Facebook posts, and his political views were all protected under the First Amendment.
04/29/2024: EEOC Releases Workplace Guidance to Prevent Harassment: WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published final guidance on harassment in the workplace, “Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace.” By providing this resource on the legal standards and employer liability applicable to harassment claims under the federal employment discrimination laws enforced by the EEOC, the guidance will help people feel safe on the job and assist employers in creating respectful workplaces.
04/01/24: Intravaia was retained to provide assistance with the https://www.scoutingsettlementtrust.com/s/ and working with the following law firms:
03/25/24, Intravaia was awarded a highly competitive contract with STATE OF WASHINGTON, OFFICE OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON, to conduct personnel investigations and computer/cellphone/email/driver forensics regarding workplace investigations pertaining to allegations of:
Harassment and discrimination, including but not limited to (race/color, sex/pregnancy, marital status, national origin, religion, creed, veteran/military status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, and use of a trained service animal);
Sexual harassment and/or stalking;
Hostile work environment;
Employee misconduct and/or agency policy violations;
Employee work performance issues; and
Retaliation (including but not limited to whistleblower retaliation).
This is a two-year contract with an option to renew for five additional one-year terms.
03/20/24: Arizona State University professor sues school over DEI training: 'simply racism' DEI training is simply racism under the guise of DEI. This is exactly what the U.S. Supreme court just ruled. Copy of complaint. State law prohibits public agencies requiring employees to engage in training that presents any form of blame, or judgement on the basis of race, ethnicity, or sex. This is consistent with federal laws.
03/14/24: U.S. Department of Justice - Office of Inspector General investigation of Biden appointee top federal prosecutor Rachael Rollins. Rollins violated the Hatch Act when she leaked non-public DOJ information for the purpose of damaging the campaign of Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden, while supporting Hayden’s political rival. Rollins engaged in the very definition of election interference. Rollins intentionally disclosed to a journalist nonpublic information about a possible Justice Department investigation, soliciting and accepting 30 free tickets to a Boston Celtics game and accepting payment from a sports and entertainment agency for travel and means.
03/22/24: Intravaia attended training on Abusive Head Trauma also known as Shaken Baby Syndrome. Retinal hemorrhages, intracranial bleeding, and cerebral edema. Assess for mimics, determine the timeline of injury, and provide opinions about causation. (NAPD: Jessica Curci, RN from Godoy Medical.)
03/07/24: Association of Workplace Investigations: What Investigators Need to Know About Labor Law, National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”)
02/29/24: More DEI catastrophe and federal law violations: Brian Beneker suit against CBS Studios Inc. and Paramount. Beneker is suing based upon racial and gender discrimination, which he will win; however, be blacklisted from Hollywood. This should be taken into consideration when it comes to the amount of money to be awarded to him.
02/28/24: AI-enabled data-to-knowledge platform: Intravaia attended training on the complex geopolitical landscape under China’s influence, diplomatic, information, military, and economic (DIME) power dynamics. Identified tools to provide a decision advantage for military leaders in deciphering China's intentions.
02/14/24: DEI catastrophe and federal law violations: Unlawful racial discrimination by the Walt Disney Company. Complaint filed with U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Rampant racial and gender discrimination.
02/13/24-02/14/24: Intravaia attended the Department of Homeland Security Threat Evaluation and Reporting seminar. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) training educating attendees to mitigate acts of targeted violence and terrorism.
02/20/24: Intravaia attended the Federal Resources for K-12 Security Threats and Incidents presented as part of the 2024 School Safety Virtual Training Series. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and U.S. Secret Service.
02/07/24: Intravaia completed the Association of Workplace Investigations: Reluctant Witnesses course.
01/18/24: Intravaia completed the Association of Workplace Investigations: Investigations Conundrums – Identifying and Maintaining Credibility course.
12/14/23: U.S. Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network: Starting January 1, 2024, U.S. companies will be required to report information to the https://www.fincen.gov/boi U.S. government about who ultimately owns and controls them. The mission of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is to safeguard the financial system from illicit use, combat money laundering and its related crimes including terrorism, and promote national security through the strategic use of financial authorities and the collection, analysis, and dissemination of financial intelligence.
08/17/23: Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in partnership with the U.S. Departments of Education (ED), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Justice (DOJ), launched a public awareness campaign to highlight federal school safety resources and evidence-based practices available through SchoolSafety.gov.
06/29/23: STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC. v. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE AND Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Commissioner Andrea Lucas predicted that the Supreme Court’s ruling on racial preferences in college admissions will lead to an increased amount of challenges to already illegal corporate DEI programs and other methods of sneaking in race preferences. Update: 08/04/23: “On July 19, 2023, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee enjoined SBA from applying a rebuttable presumption of social disadvantage to individuals of certain racial groups applying to the 8(a) Business Development program. SBA has temporarily suspended new 8(a) application submissions while it revises the application questionnaire to comply with the Court’s decision. Thank you for your patience and interest in the 8(a) Business Development program.”
05/19/23: Intravaia attended the Association of Threat Assessment Professional NW – Starbucks Risk Management: The State of Behavioral Threat Assessment at Starbucks.
05/16/23: Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) released the K-12 Bystander Reporting Toolkit, a new resource to support kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) schools in strengthening school safety reporting programs and encouraging bystander reporting among students and other members of the school community.
Effective reporting systems, and the willingness of bystanders to come forward with safety and wellness concerns for themselves and others, are critical components of student health and school violence prevention efforts. The K-12 Bystander Reporting Toolkit offers simple strategies and guidance K-12 schools and school districts can use to implement or enhance safety reporting programs and create a school environment where students are more willing and able to report concerns for the wellness and safety of themselves or others. It is designed to help school leaders create tailored, customized approaches that best meet the needs of their unique communities.
Developed in collaboration with the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center, the toolkit offers five key strategies for schools to consider in strengthening their school safety reporting programs:
Encourage bystanders to report concerns for the wellness and safety of themselves or others.
Make reporting accessible and safe for the reporting community.
Follow-up on reports and be transparent about the actions taken in response to reported concerns.
Make reporting a part of daily school life.
Create a positive climate where reporting is valued and respected.
The K-12 Bystander Reporting Toolkit is applicable to schools comprising a range of student populations, geographical settings, and at various levels of maturity in their approach to reporting. In addition to strategies and guidance, it provides self-assessment worksheets and checklists and a list of additional school safety resources on topics such as threat assessment and school climate.
The toolkit represents the latest effort in CISA’s and the Secret Service’s shared school safety mission, which includes providing schools with actionable, practical, and cost-efficient steps toward preventing harm or acts of violence among our most important populations.
To access “Improving School Safety Through Bystander Reporting: A Toolkit for Strengthening K-12 Reporting Programs,” visit here.
Senate Bill 5046: Starting January 1st., 2024 HB 5046 goes into effect. HB 5046 pertains to post conviction access to counsel for adults and juveniles through the Office of Public Defense.
04/19/23: Intravaia completed: Homeland Security Department of Homeland Security, Office of Intelligence and Analysis: Behavioral Approach to Violence Prevention 2.0
04/19/23: Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction 2023 High-Risk List: SIGAR’s oversight mission, as defined by the legislation, is to provide for the independent and objective:
• conduct and supervision of audits and investigations relating to the programs and operations funded with amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for the reconstruction of Afghanistan.
• leadership and coordination of, and recommendations on, policies designed to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in the administration of the programs and operations, and to prevent and detect waste, fraud, and abuse in such programs and operations.
• means of keeping the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense fully and currently informed about problems and deficiencies relating to the administration of such programs and operation and the necessity for and progress on corrective action.
04/19/23: Overhauling the Justice Department and the FBI: Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project.
02/01/23: Intravaia conducted a comprehensive personnel investigation which involved viewpoint based discrimination. Viewpoint discrimination is a form of content discrimination particularly disfavored by the courts and considered an egregious form of content discrimination in which the government/employer targets not subject matter, but particular views of an employee on a subject. Our case involved adverse employment action based on political expression. The employer had weaponized policies & procedures to target an employee based upon their views.
June 20-22, 2023: Intravaia will be attending the 2023 Philadelphia Joint Threat Assessment Training: The Washington D.C. – MidAtlantic, Northeast and New England Chapters of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP) are pleased to present the 2023 Joint Threat Assessment Training – Philadelphia, designed to address major issues surrounding mass shootings and other public attacks, workplace violence, school / campus violence, domestic violence, assassination of public figures and other situations involving the prevention of targeted violence. A variety of nationally recognized speakers will give presentations on current information, research and techniques related to the industry.
Intravaia was awarded a contract with WA State Department of Commerce - Office of Adult and Family Homelessness: The Identification Assistance and Support Program grant is targeted at establishing an identification assistance and support program to assist homeless persons in collecting documentation and procuring a Washington state standard ID card by the Washington State Department of Licensing.
January 18th, 2023: Intravaia will be attending Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Beyond the Check Boxes to a Model that Works sponsored by NAPD’s DEIJ & Racial Justice Groups.
08/06/23: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: The Global Diversity Export Initiative Business Mission to South Africa, Ghana, and Optional Stop in Nigeria - August 6-15, 2023
The Global Diversity Export Initiative (GDEI) Trade Mission to Africa is focused on building commercial bridges between U.S. owned or led businesses from underserved communities and business communities in South Africa, Ghana, and Nigeria.
The mission will begin in Johannesburg, South Africa where participants can have pre-arranged business-to-business meetings with potential partners and customers and be given market briefings from commercial officers and in-country trade experts from South Africa and surrounding countries.
The next stop is Ghana in West Africa where mission participants can have pre-arranged business-to-business meetings with potential partners and customers.
After Ghana, mission participants have the option to proceed to an additional stop in Nigeria for two additional days where they can have business-to-business meetings with potential partners and customers.
The mission will help participating firms and organizations gain market insights, make industry contacts, solidify business strategies, and advance specific projects, with the goal of increasing U.S. exports. By participating in an official U.S. industry delegation, rather than traveling on their own, U.S. companies will enhance their ability to secure meetings and gain greater exposure in these markets.
06/29/23: Supreme Court of the U.S.: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the court held that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
03/16/23-03/18/23: National Association for Public Defense - Rise. Resist. Represent Conference 2023
June, 2022: Intravaia was re-certified in Active Shooter Response Training - ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate) Certified Instructor Recertification, which now includes Lesson Plans for Grades K – 3rd, 4th – 8th and 9th – 12th:
Lessons are structured appropriately for the cognitive level of younger students, and for grades four and later, Stop-and-Do activities are facilitated by a teacher in the familiar surroundings of the classroom
This model provides age-appropriate training to minimize the anxiety of preparing for active shooter response while helping to develop decision-making skills students can use during a real threat.
12/14/22: Intravaia completed Countdown to the California Privacy Rights Act conducted by Thompson Coburn LLP on Cybersecurity. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides consumers with numerous rights, including the right to know what personal information about them has been collected, the right to delete such personal information and the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information. Most obligations under the CCPA did not apply to personal information a business collects about job applicants, employees, officers or other individual’s roles within the business. However, this so-called employee exemption is set to expire on Dec. 31, 2022 — which is why the employee data protection obligations will take effect at the beginning of the new year. Takes effect January 1, 2023.
03/21/22: Gov. Jay Inslee signed Executive Order 22-04 Washington State Pro-Equity Anti-Racism (PEAR Plan & Playbook. See: Office of Equity Washington State for resources.
02/19/22: Intravaia was assigned as a court appointed expert investigator assigned to two separate inquests conducted by law after a death occurs during law enforcement duties. Inquests are managed by the King County Department of Executive Services (DES).
02/15/22: Intravaia was awarded a Personnel Investigator Services & Digital Forensics Investigator Services contract with the State of Washington Department of Enterprise Services ending March 1, 2027. This contract is available to all State of WA departments, higher education, counties, cities, and public institutions.
06/09/21: Role of First-Line Supervisor in Facilitating Change in Law Enforcement Organizations. Dr. Robin S. Engel, Ph.D., Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and Director of the International Association of Chiefs of Police / UC Center for Police Research and Policy, NACOLE, 2021
Intravaia is a member of the following organizations:
Association of Workplace Investigators
Association of Threat Assessment Professionals - NW Chapter
Risk Management Society NW Chapter
Washington Association of Sewage and Water Districts
Association of Washington Cities.
National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA)
National Alliance of Sentencing Advocates and Mitigation Specialists (NASAMS)
National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement: Intravaia has completed the following training through NACOLE: Does Their Camera Tell the Truth, held by the Los Angeles County Civilian Oversight Commission, 26th Annual Conference of the NACOLE: What Went Wrong: Deficiencies in Investigations of an Officer Involved Shooting, Oversight in Settlement Agreements, Police Initiated Neck Restraints, and Racial Equality in Law Enforcement, NACOLE Accountability and Transparency in Law Enforcement: Inspector General for the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and Independent Police Review and Deputy Inspector General for Safety City of Chicago OIG.
HSIN Homeland Security Information Network
Intravaia suggests the following resources:
PERC: Public Employment Relations Commission - Decisions
Washington State Office of Public Defense
Office of the Director of National Intelligence: The National Counterterrorism Center
Domestic Security Alliance Council (DSAC) FBI - Private Industry - DHS
Intravaia conducts personnel investigations, case reviews, and consulting to the University of Washington, Seattle and other state higher education.
We provide program development and training for hostile work environment risk assessment, management and conflict resolution. Our diverse group of men and women are all prior law enforcement officers and/or military personnel with extensive experience, and training. They possess backgrounds with city, state, federal law enforcement agencies. We are also an approved U.S. federal government, WA State, city and county contractor. Intravaia conducts business out of the Columbia Tower, 701 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104 https://columbiacenterseattle.com/
Intravaia has been certified as a King County Small Contractor and Supplier (SCS) firm. This also includes Port of Seattle and Sound Transit. We are in the business directory of the Puget Sound Business Journal http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/
Intravaia is proud and humbled to be conducting personnel investigations for the King County Prosecuting Attorney, Civil Division. The Civil Division is the county's in-house law firm. It serves as legal counsel to the Metropolitan King County Council, the County Executive and all Executive departments, the Sheriff, the Superior and District Courts, the County Assessor.
Intravaia conducts risk management investigations for the Seattle City Attorney’s Office Civil Division - Torts Section, 701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2050, Seattle, WA 98104-7097 and other state and county agencies.
Intravaia conducts global due diligence for Perkins Coie.
Intravaia is extremely honored to be an approved vendor with the State of WA Department of Enterprise Services to conduct Personnel Investigations: Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, Retaliation, Hostile Work Environment, Employee Misconduct/Just Cause, Employee Performance Issues, and Computer Forensics.
Intravaia conducts executive level personnel investigations for Bellevue College, 3000 Landerholm Circle SE, Bellevue, WA 98007 and Highline College, Des Moines, WA.
Intravaia provides employment consulting and personnel investigations for the King County Department of Executive Services and Human Resources.
Intravaia is very pleased to be conducting investigative work for the King County Department of Public Defense Conflict Panel conducting follow-up defense work on homicide and other felony level crimes. Intravaia is very pleased to also be conducting criminal defense investigative work for Stein, Lotzkar & Starr, P.S throughout King, Snohomish, and Pierce Counties—from district and municipal courts to the Washington State Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
Intravaia conducts investigative work for the City of Seattle Municipal Court Public Defense Services.
Confidentiality, Professionalism, & Integrity
We are fully licensed WA State private investigators #3655, and insured. We work with several top level law firms in Seattle and across the country to address proper resolution utilizing civil and/or criminal options partnered with our specialized investigations. Our backgrounds allow us to act as a proper liaison with law enforcement to include federal authorities.
Payment Terms
Payment is due in 30 days, which includes non-business days. A finance charge of 5% will accrue for past due bills over 30 days and for each additional 30-day period beyond the initial delinquency. After 90 days, invoices are sent to collections per company policy. The lack of paid accounts creates slow cash flow problems for Intravaia, which is a micro-small business. Intravaia has financial obligations such as payrolls and important bills. Intravaia is a business for profit and not a non-profit organization.