Recording and/or Sharing Material: No part of any Writers’ Police Academy/MurderCon (WPA) events, either the virtual or live, in-person, may be recorded, reproduced, shared, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including but not limited to social media live-streaming, video or audio recording, photograph, photocopy or any other information storage or retrieval system without the explicit written permission of the WPA. The WPA reserves the right to record sessions in digital format or otherwise and use these and their content in future events, publications or broadcasts without compensation.

Anti-Harassment Policy: The Writers’ Police Academy (WPA) is dedicated to providing a welcoming and accepting conference for all. It will not tolerate any harassing, discriminatory or disrespectful behaviors and reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to refuse registration to or expel from the conference, without refund of registration fees, anyone that it determines is behaving in a manner that could be disruptive to the virtual or live conference, its attendees, speakers, sponsors, volunteers, staff members, attendees, or event hosts.

Registration and Refund Policy: Registration will stop when maximum capacity is reached. No refunds. No exceptions. Registrations may not be transferred to another individual.

Attendance Policy: The attendance of the WPA is at your own risk. In no event shall the WPA nor any of its owners, officers, representatives, employees, volunteers or staff members be liable for death, injury, and loss, suffered by any person (including accompanying persons, partner, or attendant caregivers).

Disclaimer: At any time, with or without giving notice, the WPA, in its sole discretion and without giving reason, may modify the schedule, change, cancel or postpone the conference. The WPA will not be held responsible for changes, cancellation or postponement caused by fire, flood, strike, civil, governmental or military authority, acts of God, acts of terrorism, acts of war, epidemics, the availability of the venue or other similar causes beyond its reasonable control. In the event the conference cannot be held or is postponed, neither the WPA nor any of its owners, officers, representatives, employees, volunteers or staff members shall be liable to registrants/attendees for any loss, liability, damage or expense, such as transportation and accommodation costs, suffered or incurred by any person.

Views expressed by speakers are their own. The WPA cannot accept liability for advice given, or views expressed, by any speaker at the conference or in any material provided to attendees.

The WPA offers realistic training material about crime scene and forensics investigations. Some attendees may be exposed to content they deem inappropriate, offensive, or graphic.