The portal site for “DC Public Safety” is http://media.csosa.gov .

Current Radio Program:

The program interviews Laura Sullivan,  an NPR News investigative correspondent whose work has cast a light on some of the country’s most pressing criminological issues.

Sullivan joined NPR in 2004 as a correspondent on the National Desk. For six years she covered crime and punishment issues, with reports airing regularly on Morning Edition, All Things Considered and other NPR programs.

Over the years, Sullivan’s work has been honored by many of journalism’s highest awards, including two Peabody Awards and two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Batons.

The program addressed media coverage of crime and criminal justice issues and NPR’s commitment to criminological concerns.

The website for National Public Radio is available at http://www.npr.org.

The NPR page describing Laura Sullivan’s work is at  http://www.npr.org/people/4624985/laura-sullivan.

Special Announcements:

The Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency offers annual “Reentry Reflection Events” in January and February. See http://www.csosa.gov/reentry/events.aspx.

The National Reentry Resource Center is a project of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice. Please see the Center’s website at http://www.nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/. Please see “Federal Interagency Reentry Council Launches Website, Releases Myth-Buster Series” on the front page of the site (see announcements). CSOSA is a member of the Council.

Several requesters have asked for national research on reentry. The Office of Justice Program’s National Institute of Justice reentry research portfolio supports the evaluation of innovative reentry programs. To access these studies and NIJ’s entire reentry research portfolio visit www.nij.gov/nij/topics/corrections/reentry/welcome.htm .

The Louisiana Department of Corrections/Division of Probation and Parole is offering radio shows on offender reentry. Please visit their website at http://doc.la.gov/pages/reentry-initiatives/reentry-radio/ .

Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency:

We welcome your comments or suggestions at leonard.sipes@csosa.gov .

The website for the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency is http://www.csosa.gov/.

The program is hosted by Leonard Sipes. The producer is Timothy Barnes.

Comments offered on “DC Public Safety” television and radio programs are the opinions of participants and do not necessarily represent the policies of CSOSA or other government agencies.

Welcome to DC Public Safety – radio and television shows on crime, criminal offenders and the criminal justice system.

See http://media.csosa.gov for our television shows, blog and transcripts. We now average 213,000 requests a month.

We welcome your comments or suggestions at leonard.sipes@csosa.gov or at Twitter at http://twitter.com/lensipes.

Transcript available at http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/transcripts/2010/05/social-media-for-law-enforcement-dc-public-safety-213000-requests-a-month/

The program interviews Lauri Stevens, Chair of Web Design and Interactive Media for the New England Institute of Art and organizer of the Social Media in Law Enforcement Conference (SMILE). Also interviewed is Daniel Alexander, Chief of Police, Boca Raton, FL. Chief Alexander will be speaking at the Social Media in Law Enforcement Conference. He employees a wide array of social media initiatives.

The theme of the program is that social media accomplishes a wide array of operational objectives, improves public safety and prompts multiple conversations with citizens to improve operations and crime control.

The web address for the conference is http://thesmileconference.com . The website for Chief Alexander is http://www.bocaviper.com.

The program is hosted by Leonard Sipes. The producer is Timothy Barnes.

Terms: social media, SMILE, Social Media in Law Enforcement, police, law enforcement

See http://media.csosa.gov for our television shows, blog and transcripts.

Transcript available at http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/transcripts/?p=207

We welcome your comments or suggestions at leonard.sipes@csosa.gov to at Twitter at twitter.com/lensipes.

The program features an interview with two veteran newspaper reporters with approximately 40 years of combined reporting experience. They are Robert Pierre of the Washington Post and Peter Hermann of the Baltimore Sun. Both papers have histories of meaningful coverage of crime related issues. Both write articles/columns producing analytical examinations of crime and the justice system.

Peter Hermann offers a blog and a video blog at http://baltimoresun.com/crime. Peter’s e-mail address is peter.hermann@baltsun.com. The e-mail for Robert is pierrer@washpost.com

The show is hosted by Leonard Sipes. The producer is Timothy Barnes.

Meta terms: crime, criminals, criminal justice, parole, probation, prison, drug treatment, reentry, sex offenders, domestic violence, anger management, corrections, high-risk offenders, GPS, women offenders.

See http://media.csosa.gov for our television shows, blog and transcripts.

Transcript available at http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/transcripts/?p=88

We welcome your comments or suggestions at leonard.sipes@csosa.gov on at Twitter at twitter.com/lensipes.

The program features an interview with Carl Wicklund, the Executive Director of the American Probation and Parole Association addressing the effort to improve public relations for community corrections. APPA offers a “Brand Marketing” kit through their web site at www.appa-net.org or by calling 859-244-8196.

The slogan of the campaign is “A Force for Positive Change.”

The show is hosted by Leonard Sipes. The producer is Timothy Barnes.

Meta terms: crime, criminals, criminal justice, parole, probation, prison, drug treatment, reentry, sex offenders, domestic violence, anger management, corrections, high-risk offenders, GPS.

See http://media.csosa.gov for our television shows.
We welcome your comments or suggestions at leonard.sipes@csosa.gov.

This segment aired on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” program on March 11, 2008.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88074698. National Correspondent Laura Sullivan reports.  The public affairs team from Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency assisted.

Transcript available at http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/transcripts/?p=52

Meta terms: crime, criminals, criminal justice, parole, probation, prison, drug treatment, reentry, sex offenders.

See http://media.csosa.gov for our television shows.

We welcome your comments or suggestions at leonard.sipes@csosa.gov.

The program provides a discussion of media coverage of crime and criminal justice issues. Our guest is Ted Gest, President of Criminal Justice Journalists. Criminal Justice Journalists provides training to media covering crime issues. They offer the best daily summary of newspaper coverage in the country. Please see http://reporters.net/cjj/index.html.

The show is hosted by Leonard Sipes.

Transcript available at http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/transcripts/?p=47

Meta terms: crime, criminals, criminal justice, parole, probation, prison,
drug treatment, reentry, sex offenders.