It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce that our very own Don Wochna has been selected as a recipient of the 2022 NSME Accents on Excellence Award. 

Don is an attorney and certified cell phone/computer forensic examiner.  For 39 years he has practiced law and, along with his business partner, Hayden Pritchard, provides forensic investigative services to attorneys and businesses as consulting and testifying experts in criminal and civil matters.

Through Digital Safety Group, Don and Hayden provide individuals and businesses with non-confrontational solutions to harms that are part of our digital society, including bullying, harassment, threats, extreme ideologies, pornography, and other challenges. Digital Safety Group’s “Smarter Privacy” solution configures smartphones and social media profiles for adults and children to create a “safe harbor” and put people back in control of their electronic devices and digital lives.  

Don attributes the NSME 50th Annual Accent on Excellence Award to the way in which Digital Safety Group is changing the dialogue around protecting our children from the dark side of social media and the abuse of our electronic devices. 

“Manufacturers provide us wonderful cell phones and global mega-companies empower us with wonderful applications such as texting, but none of these companies provide any meaningful help in managing the dark side of a digital world.  We are only now beginning to appreciate the negative impact on all of us—but especially on teens—of the isolation, harassment, and mean-spirited bullying that is an integral part of social media environments.”  

Looking to the manufacturers and social media platform companies to enforce order in these environments is ineffective.  “It is up to us, and especially parents, to take steps to manage the social media environments in which our children are expected to live and act, but that is a lot easier to say than to accomplish.  Managing our social media demands that we understand our social media profile, our electronic device configurations, and that we continue to modify our engagement with social media in response to changes in that environment.  That is what DigitalSafetyGroup.com does.  We let you live in a digital world by managing the risks—just like you manage the risks in the real world.”

Digital Safety Group is a non-confrontational opportunity to provide risk management to those worried about their online presence. Digital Safety Group complements the forensic, adversarial, investigative, and legal services offered by The Law Firm of Donald Wochna to identify, isolate, and respond to the bad actors in a digital world.  

What is the difference between DigitalSafetyGroup.com and Wochnalawfirm.com? “DigitalSafetyGroup.com helps you to manage your response to the bad influences in a digital society; Wochnalawfirm.com helps you go after the bad guys.”

Congratulations, Don Wochna!