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File 25
News of the NYS Sheriffs' Association
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10th Annual Statewide Conference on Victim Notification a Success
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Gwen Wright, Executive Director of the NYS Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence
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Director of Victim Notification Programs Ed Wutzer, New York City Sheriff Joe Fucito, and Broome County Sheriff Dave Harder.
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Wayne County Sheriff Barry Virts; Madison County Sheriff, Victim Advisory Board President Allen Riley
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Over 100 Victim Advocates and Law Enforcement professionals attend the Conference on Victim Notification in Albany last week.
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The Sheriffs' Institute brought together over 100 victim advocates and law enforcement officials from more than 50 agencies for the 10th Annual New York Statewide Conference on Victim Notification in Albany, NY last week.
Sheriffs who presented at the event included: Madison County Sheriff and Victim Advisory Board President Allen Riley; New York City Sheriff Joe Fucito; Wayne County Sheriff Barry Virts, and Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple.
Other speakers included Elizabeth Cronin, Director of the NYS Office for Victim Services; Gwen Wright, Executive Director of the NYS OPDV; Janet Koupash, Director, DOCCS Office of Victim Services; Ron Bill, Broome County Civil Division Chief; Peggy Duffy, Monroe County Stop-DWI Coordinator; Robert Passonno, Domestic Violence Program Administrator NYSOPDV; Carl Boykin, Director of Human Trafficking Prevention, NYS DCJS; and Christine Rodriguez with the Albany Equinox.
The family of NYSSAI Administrative Assistant Irene Colwill were our guests at the annual Victim Notification Banquet the night before the conference, where they were presented with a gift recognizing Irene's extraordinary dedication to advancing the cause of crime victim services.
Thanks to everyone who came out to this important conference
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Sheriffs Represented at Key Meetings
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Photo (l to r): Rachel Small, Deputy Director Chuck Gallo, Broome County Sheriff Dave Harder, Chenango County Sheriff Ernie Cutting and Ulster County Sheriff Paul VanBlarcum.
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Photo (l to r):
Executive Director Peter Kehoe, GTSC Liaison Tony D'agostina, and GTSC Assistant Commissioner
Charles DeWeese
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Rachel Small, the Governor’s Deputy Secretary for Public Safety
spoke before the Association’s Executive Committee last week to introduce herself and to get to know the Sheriffs of New York. Nineteen Sheriffs participated in the meeting, which was held at our Association office in Albany, including three by teleconference.
Executive Committee Chairman Gary Maha
and
President Chris Farber
co-chaired the meeting. The first order of business was to elect a vice-chairman.
Oswego County Sheriff Reuel “Moe” Todd
was re-elected to that position, which he has held for several years. Notes of the meeting will be distributed to all Sheriffs shortly.
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The Fourth Annual Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Executive Summit, hosted by the NYS Department of Transportation, was held at DOT’s Colonie headquarters last week. The purpose of the gathering was to review for all the different entities involved in shaping traffic emergency response policies and practices, the latest developments in traffic incident management. Among the topics discussed were the success of “Move Over Laws,” adopted in New York in 2012 and now in place in every State, in reducing accidents involving emergency responders; efforts to bring more disciplines into the TIM program, including non-governmental entities like tow operators; and efforts to adopt in New York a “Quick Clearance” law and a “Steer It, Clear It” law. New York is one of a small handful of states without such laws already in place. Also a major topic was the effort to get TIM training out to a core of officers in every agency, in order to spread the TIM concepts statewide.
NYSSA Executive Director Peter Kehoe and
Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee liaison Tony D’Agostino represented the Sheriffs at the meeting.
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NYSIC Jail Intelligence Officer Workshop Held in Cooperstown
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Fifty-three corrections staff members from jails across the state participated in a Jail Intelligence Officer Workshop held at the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown last month. The three-day conference was sponsored by the New York State Intelligence Center with support from the NYS Sheriffs’ Association.
Sheriff Rich Devlin’s Otsego County Sheriff’s Office Color Guard opened the conference and NYSSA President, Herkimer County Sheriff Chris Farber was among the guest speakers. Attendees heard presentations from FBI agents, DOCS officials, NYSIC staff and Sgt. Steve Reverri of Sheriff Butch Anderson’s Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office, all speaking on the great value and usefulness of jail intelligence to criminal justice and homeland security agencies and on methods of collecting and sharing that intelligence.
There are now 56 Jail Intelligence Officers working in the county jails and at Riker’s Island, with two more soon to come on board. NYSIC reports that the conference has already been productive, with intel coming in from the jails on both criminal activity and suspicious activity as it relates to terrorism.
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Photo: Sheriffs’ Association President, Herkimer County Sheriff Chris Farber addresses the NYSIC Jail Intelligence Officer Workshop in Cooperstown on behalf of the Sheriffs of New York State
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Photo: Duchess County Sheriff's Sgt. Steve Reverri addresses the NYSIC Jail Intelligence Officer Workshop in Cooperstown
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Sheriffs' Safe Child Booth Moves to Prime Location for 2016 State Fair!
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The Sheriffs Association will once again sponsor an Operation Safe Child booth at the 2016 NY State Fair in Syracuse, from August 25 through Labor Day, September 5
,
2016
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We have been given a new and larger location this year, in the Science and Industry Building, which is near the main gate and close to the popular midway and special events venues. In each of the prior years we have issued nearly 5,000 Operation Safe Child ID’s, answered an untold number of questions and distributed thousands of pages of materials on the Office of Sheriff.
With our new and improved location we are hoping to reach many more Fair-goers. The booth is open from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM daily and is staffed by Deputy Sheriffs, volunteer citizens and Sheriffs’ Association employees. It is especially important to have a law enforcement presence, and the Fair is a good opportunity to show off our great Deputy Sheriffs from across the State. We thank those Sheriffs who have detailed their Deputies to the Operation Safe Child booth in prior years.
Civil Deputy Sue Alverado of the Cayuga County Sheriff’s
Office, with the approval of Sheriff Dave Gould, has once again agreed to handle the monumental task of scheduling all the necessary staffing in advance of the Fair, as well as supervising the booth during the course of the Fair. Our thanks to Sue and to Sheriff Gould for this.
All Sheriffs should have recently received a request to provide Deputies or other staff for the booth. All Sheriffs are encouraged to consider whether or not this is a project they would be able to help us with. Deputy Alverado will be reaching out to Sheriffs over the next few months and we hope all Sheriffs will give her whatever cooperation they can.
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Thanks to our Diamond Partners:
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New York State Sheriffs' Association | 518-434-9091 | www.nysheriffs.org
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