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Proclamation - National Correctional Officers and Employees Week
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Date of BOCC Meeting: April 23, 2018
Request for Board Action:
Agenda Text
The Board is requested to proclaim the week of May 6-12, 2018 as National Correctional Officers and Employees Week to recognize the detention officers and employees of the Durham County Detention Division of the Sheriff’s Department.
On May 5, 1984, then-President Ronald Reagan issued Proclamation 5187-National Correctional Officers’ Week, in which he called “upon officials of State and local governments and the people of the United States to observe this week with appropriate ceremonies and activities,” to recognize “the contributions of correctional officers to our Nation.”
The thousands of women and men working in corrections - in administration, security or health care - in the federal system, a state system, a local facility, a private facility, or in a military facility, in an adult facility or a juvenile facility, in a prison, a jail, or a community-based program - are owed a tremendous debt of gratitude. Corrections professionals put their health, safety and lives on the line every day to maintain public safety, to reform and rehabilitate our nation’s offenders and perform many other duties.
Alignment with Strategic Plan: Goal 3 - Safe and Secure Community
Resource Persons: Wendy Jacobs, Chair; Sheriff Mike Andrews
County Manager’s Recommendation: The County Manager recommends that the Board proclaim May 6-12, 2018 National Correctional Officers and Employees Week.
Signature
County Manager: ____________________________