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Clayton County Sheriff's Department

COMMUNITY / EDUCATION

Educate, Involve & Inform the Community

As Sheriff I plan on increasing community education through informing and involving.

One of my priorities is to increase the amount of news releases and educational awareness programs.  I will provide the public with information on current and recent crimes that are in the area and ways to avoid them and how and where to report them. I would like to publish a regular article in the newspapers highlighting recent arrests, crimes investigated, department functions, and programs hosted by the sheriff’s office.

I want to make programs more available to the community. I want to implement a Hunter Safety Education course through the sheriff’s office to compliment the programs currently in the county. At the present time not all schools in Clayton County offer hunter education. I want to provide the opportunity to local youths for this program.

I want to continue with the “I Pledge” program which offers tobacco retailer education on avoiding making sales of tobacco to youths. I would also like to expand on the alcohol retailer education. Currently the sheriffs department only offers this training with assistance from Helping Services of Northeast Iowa. The education and training has been dependant on grants obtained by Helping Services. I would like to make this a regular program offered by the sheriffs’ office.

I would like expand the booth that the sheriffs’ office maintains every year at the county fair. I would like to invite other law enforcement agencies to join in at the booth so that officers from all jurisdictions can be represented and answer questions from the general public.

I would also make deputies available to speak at local organizations on various topics upon request.