Ben Lord

Detective Sergeant - Johnson County Sheriff's Office

Det. Sgt. Ben Lord grew up in Iowa City and is a 2003 graduate of City High School. From 2003 to 2007, he attended Iowa State University, where he studied criminology, criminal justice, and history. He completed a master’s degree in Criminal Justice through Arizona State University in 2015, with relevant coursework in Policing and Homeland Security, Police Accountability and Criminal Justice Ethics, Criminal Justice Planning, Program Evaluation, Policymaking, Data Analysis, Theory of Criminology, and Theory of Criminal Justice. Det. Sgt. Lord was hired as a deputy sheriff in 2012 and is currently assigned to the Johnson County Joint Forensic Analysis Cyber Team (JFACT) task force, a group of investigators responsible for digital forensic analysis and Internet Crimes Against Children investigations. He recently completed a master’s degree in Digital Forensics at Champlain College and holds numerous digital forensics and IT industry certifications, including CFCE, CAWFE, ICMDE, CFME, EnCE, A+, Network+, Linux+, and CySA+. Ben has been a volunteer staff member with the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists for several years and currently serves as the chair of the Advanced Windows Forensic Examiner training program.

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