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Len Sipes:\u00a0 From the nation\u2019s capital, this is D.C. Public Safety.\u00a0 I\u2019m your host, Leonard Sipes.\u00a0 Today\u2019s guest is Diane Kincaid.\u00a0 Diane is the Deputy Director for the American Probation and Parole Association.\u00a0 They are the leading organization promoting the issues in parole and probation in this country. They are at the forefront of virtually everything that\u2019s going on throughout the United States, and for, to some degree, throughout the world in terms of anything involving community supervision services.\u00a0 Their website, www.appa-net.org<\/a>.\u00a0 Before talking to Diane, our usual commercials.\u00a0 We\u2019re up to 200,000 requests a month for D.C. Public Safety, radio, television, blog, and transcripts.\u00a0 Once again, we are really appreciative of all the guidance that you give us, and we will take it all, criticisms and guidance, whatever is on your mind, please get back in touch with us.\u00a0 If you want to get in touch with me directly, it\u2019s Leonard \u2013 L-E-O-N-A-R-D \u2013 dot-sipes \u2013 S-I-P-E-S, @csosa.gov.\u00a0 CSOSA is the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, a federal parole and probation agency in Washington D.C.\u00a0 You can follow us via twitter at www.twitter.com\/lensipes<\/a>, or you can comment, as most of you do, within the comment boxes of, again, D.C. Public Safety at Media, M-E-D-I-A, dot-csosa.gov, the radio show, television shows, blog, and transcripts.\u00a0 Back at Diane Kincaid, Diane, how\u2019ve you been?<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 Good, how are you, Len?<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 I\u2019m fine, fine, fine.\u00a0 Diane, you know, one of the things that I said when you, I\u2019m a member, by the way, of the American Probation and Parole Association, and they were kind enough to give us, Tim Barnes and myself an award for our community outreach efforts, and from the podium, what I did was to thank Diane Kincaid because there are people all throughout the United States who depend upon Diane Kincaid to answer their questions and provide them with information and feedback about parole and probation, so she\u2019s probably better known than anybody in the country in terms of parole and probation issues, and I thanked Diane from the podium, because she\u2019s been there for years, and she really does know more than anybody else in the country regarding parole and probation efforts, so Diane, once again, thank you for everything that you do for those of us in the corrections community.<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 Thanks, Len, I really appreciate that, and I want to say, too, that doing what I do.\u00a0 I truly appreciate the job that you do as far as outreach, because that\u2019s not easy, and you do a wonderful job, so our association certainly appreciates it.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 Well, compliments are going both ways, but without APPA, we wouldn\u2019t exist.\u00a0 We wouldn\u2019t be there, and we wouldn\u2019t have the strategies that we have today.\u00a0 A variety of things that we want to talk about today, the 35th annual training institute coming up in Washington D.C. on August 15-18, that\u2019s why I\u2019m going to be repeating the website address throughout the program, www.appa-net.org<\/a>, and talking about the training institute, talking about the marketing strategies, talking about a variety of resolutions that the American Probation and Parole Association has on their plate.\u00a0 Parole and Probation Officer Week is coming up on July 18 through July 24.\u00a0 A force for positive change is a logo that APPA produced a couple years ago to help the rest of us out in terms of our public relations effort, and also support for the second chance act, so that\u2019s a long list of different things we have to do within a half hour.\u00a0 First of all, let\u2019s talk about the 35th annual training institute in Washington D.C. on August 15 and 18.<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 Yeah, we\u2019re really excited about being in the capital.\u00a0 We\u2019ve never had one of our annual institutes in the capital of our nation, so it\u2019s going to be really exciting.\u00a0 We have a lot of wonderful activities planned, and CSOSA, as co-host agency is doing a wonderful job in helping us bring in some wonderful workshops and good presentations.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to be really good.\u00a0 You know, we\u2019re hoping to have a good crowd.\u00a0 With the travel situation the way it is for many agencies, it\u2019s difficult, and we understand that.\u00a0 You know, it can be hard to have a budget for training, let alone for travel as well.\u00a0 Hopefully, the location there in D.C. is going to be easy enough for people all along the east coast to get to, many people are going to be able to drive in, so that\u2019s going to help out a whole lot.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 If people have an opportunity to come to Washington D.C., bring your family if at all humanly possible, there are, you can spend days and days and days in Washington D.C. going to all of the free events, the Smithsonian, the Air and Space Museum, the World War II Memorial.\u00a0 My wife and I, just the other day, were talking about going down and seeing the Holocaust Memorial.\u00a0 I mean, there are an endless array of things and events that are all free.\u00a0 D.C. is a very family oriented place, and did I say free?\u00a0 So if you come to D.C., there is just a ton of things to do, cultural and historical and otherwise, it\u2019s just an amazing city, and I\u2019m privileged to work here, so I really encourage anybody to, who\u2019s listening to this program, to pay attention to the website, www.appa-net.org<\/a> in terms of the 35th Annual Training Institute.\u00a0 Diane, I think one of the real wonderful things about your training institutes are the courses, but more importantly, just the ability to network with other people just like yourself.<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 Absolutely.\u00a0 You have multiple opportunities at our conferences to go into the expo hall, to look at some of the new technologies coming out for supervision, just to talk to people, just to meet people, just to make contacts from people across the country who, more than likely, are facing some of the same situations that you are.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 I spent time at the last training institute that I was at, I spent a half hour with an individual who was involved in promoting their parole and probation agency and representing that agency, and I just sat there and listened to this person for a half hour talk about his experiences, and it was just fascinating in terms of the different things that he was doing and employing, and I came out of that with, wow, saying to myself, wow, if I would just have this opportunity more often, just to talk to different people and pick their brains for ideas, the exhibitors area is always amazing, because you have people who set up their wares, commercial companies and otherwise, who set up the different booths, and talk about the technology and how it\u2019s having an impact on parole and probation, correct?<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 That\u2019s correct.\u00a0 We generally have a couple or three new ones come in, the technology is always advancing, so there are a lot of new things coming out, and our exhibit hall, unlike some other conferences, is not huge.\u00a0 Attendees absolutely have every opportunity to visit every booth and speak to the representatives of those companies.\u00a0 So it\u2019s not overwhelming, it\u2019s not a huge crowd, we have a very friendly crowd, and what amazes me is how excited people are about the work that they do.\u00a0 That really helps people do my job, just to see how involved they are, and how much they do really want to help people.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 Well, this is a hard job.\u00a0 I mean, working directly with offenders, working with people under supervision, it\u2019s a hard job, and sometimes you come out of it reinvigorated when you talk to other people and strategies that they\u2019re using and listen to their experiences, I think sometimes it\u2019s an opportunity to recharge your batteries when you go to an APPA conference.<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 I think so, and you know, we have the opportunity as well, joining committees on a number of different topics.\u00a0 Our website will give you an idea of the different types of committees that we have, just join up, get involved, and you can get a lot of information in our conferences.\u00a0 It\u2019s only a few days long, but you meet a lot of people, and you get a lot of new ideas.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 And it\u2019s in Washington D.C. which, boy, if you bring your family and you bring your kids, it\u2019s the opportunity of a lifetime in terms of seeing everything that D.C. has to offer.\u00a0 Again, all of this is on the website, www.appa-net.org<\/a>.\u00a0 Also wanted to tell you that we will be on the floor doing recordings, radio recordings of people on the floor of the conference, who are going to be, in essence, asking people why are they successful, or why their program is successful, or why their programs contribute to public safety, and so we\u2019re just going to have a smorgasbord of people on the front lines, the parole and probation agents, and the other people who work on the front lines of community supervision and just get a sense as to why they\u2019re successful, so if you want to be included in that, please show up and track us down.\u00a0 Also, what we want to do, Diane, is talk about the marketing strategies part of it, the fact that we have a force for positive change as being the logo, and we have a website, an entirely different website.\u00a0 Now you can gain access to the website, the marketing website, through the main website of APPA, or you can go to, and I\u2019ll repeat this a couple times, www.ccmarketingstrategies.org – one word \u2013 dot-org, that\u2019s www.ccmarketingstrategies.org. I would imagine CC is Community Corrections?<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 Correct.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 And why did we do this, Diane?<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 Well this is a project that began several years ago, and of course, you remember being a member of the working group that got together to decide how we would best approach marketing community corrections as an outreach activity for agencies across the country, and one of the final deliverables that we had on this project is this website.\u00a0 We have a number of different target groups that we use examples of tools that you can use for these groups to create outreach opportunities for your agency.\u00a0 We also were able to produce a number of really nice videos.\u00a0 There are videos of officers speaking about their job and what they do.\u00a0 There are other videos of offenders speaking about their experience being on community supervision, so we were real excited to get those out, and we hope that people will take an opportunity to look at it.\u00a0 I want to mention to that this entire project was funded through the bureau of justice assistance.\u00a0 It was a small grant that we received to do this work for them, because they realized that outreach for community corrections agencies was sometimes difficult.\u00a0 You simply don\u2019t have time or the budget to have a full time public information officer, and many smaller agencies simply don\u2019t have that.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 And in essence, the website makes it easy for you to gain new ideas and to, more or less, figure out for yourself what it is that you can do within your agency.<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 That\u2019s correct, and alongside that, as a sort of partner project, we did one on our own where the force for positive change came from.\u00a0 That\u2019s also available on our website with other tools.\u00a0 They\u2019re kind of linked projects, but they are pushing that same idea that you want to be prepared in your community for questions about the job that you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 Now it strikes me that the most important part of all this, because I\u2019ve talked to, and you\u2019ve talked to a lot of people throughout the country, and we\u2019ve had people throughout the world, I mean, we\u2019ve had a big contingent from England to come in and take a look at what we were doing with radio shows and the television shows and the blog, and talking about, this is something that we want to do.\u00a0 But two things come to mind, it strikes me, in terms of marketing, community corrections, and marketing parole and probation.\u00a0 Number one, most of us don\u2019t do it, and I would like to ask your opinion as to why we don\u2019t do it, and I suppose the second part of it is, well, let\u2019s just stick with that for a moment.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t we market?<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s a difficult job to market yourself in a profession where it sometimes is difficult to actually explain what you do, and the professionals who do this type of work, for the most part, are just too busy to do outreach.\u00a0 They keep their heads down, they take care of their clients, they report to a judge, they\u2019re going to court, they just don\u2019t have time to sit down and think about what they need to tell the community, or what they need to tell the media, but it\u2019s very important that they do that, because unfortunately, situations will arise where something happens.\u00a0 You may have an offender who does something on supervision, and everyone will turn around and look at that probation or parole department and want to know, you know, how did this happen, why did this happen?\u00a0 But if you have that background, if you have that support of your community or support of the media.\u00a0 They understand more about what you\u2019re trying to do, and they understand that, while you\u2019re trying to help offenders straighten out their lives and get a second chance, some people just have a lot harder time doing that than others.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 Well, look.\u00a0 Parole and probation agencies, it\u2019s difficult.\u00a0 You and I are going to agree to that, and everybody else listening to the program is probably going to agree to it, because it is inevitable that people coming out of the prison system, whether by parole or by mandatory release, are people who are on probation, they\u2019re going to go out and do some terrible things.\u00a0 It\u2019s been that way in the 20 years that I have been associated with community corrections, and so it really doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 It, from the standpoint that, whether you want to market, or whether you want to work with the media or not work with the media, about 5 or 6 times throughout the course of the year, the media is going to say, why did that parolee, that parolee who committed that murder, was he properly supervised?\u00a0 How many times did you come into contact with the individual, did he go to drug treatment, I\u2019ve read his pre-sentence report, and he was supposed to get treatment for mental health treatment, did he?\u00a0 I mean, that\u2019s a difficult process for most parole and probation agencies, and what we\u2019re saying is transparency is probably the best way to go, and there\u2019s nothing more transparent than to explain what it is that you\u2019re doing throughout the course of the year rather than what you\u2019re doing within the context of something terrible happening.<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 That\u2019s true, and in the community, and policymakers need to understand that none of this happens in a vacuum.\u00a0 Funding must be provided for programs to help offenders.\u00a0 You can\u2019t simply release someone out into the community who has a substance abuse problem, who may have a mental illness, and expect them to just, do just fine.\u00a0 They do need services, and the funding for that has to be provided.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 Right, but I mean, to explain that whole process, it\u2019s a lot better to explain that process in the context of, not being in the context of all heck breaking loose.\u00a0 When a parolee goes out and commits a series of murders, and he may have been properly supervised, not properly supervise, to explain all of this in that context, your message never gets across.\u00a0 All people want to know is, are you protecting my safety.\u00a0 Where there are hundreds of other issues that we should be talking about throughout the course of the year, so the media and the public has a better understanding of what it is that we do on a day to day basis.<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 Well, and a lot of times, reporters will write these stories without speaking to anyone, any of the officials, or any of those authorized to speak to the media from community corrections.\u00a0 They assume they know facts that may not be true.\u00a0 They glean reports from here and there, but they really need to have that contact to get the correct information.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 Diane Kincaid is the deputy director of the American Probation and Parole Association.\u00a0 She\u2019s been with the organization, how long, Diana?\u00a0 150 years?<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 I\u2019m not quite that old!<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 No!<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 But about 10 years or so.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 But you\u2019ve been there, you\u2019ve been there for a solid decade, and she is, in essence, what all of us need information as I needed information yesterday, somebody was asking me what the average caseload of parole and probation agencies throughout the country was, I said contact Diane Kincaid.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if the person has contacted you as of yet, but Diane is the, when somebody says, I need to know this information, my response is, Diane Kincaid, and here\u2019s her telephone number.\u00a0 www.appa-net.org<\/a> is the website.\u00a0 Again, we\u2019ve been talking about the 35th annual training institute coming up in Washington D.C., August 15th through 18th, and we\u2019ve also been talking about the new website APPA has put up in terms of promoting community corrections, www.ccmarketingstrategies.org, all one word, ccmarketingstrategies.org, or to access the site through the website address that I\u2019ve given probably now a dozen times, but I mean, a force for positive change.\u00a0 What that says from APPA and for the rest of us is that we\u2019re there to improve your life.\u00a0 We\u2019re there to have a positive impact on the community.<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 And to also support public safety.\u00a0 That\u2019s one of the primary functions of community supervision.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 And that\u2019s one of the things that I find most difficult, because when our response to practically everything, why are you doing this, and why are you doing that, it\u2019s all a matter of public safety, it\u2019s all a matter of keeping people safe, how many times throughout the 20 years that I have been speaking for both, you know, in some cases, both law enforcement and correctional, and community correctional organizations, I mean, the common theme is safety.\u00a0 I mean, reporters want to know what you\u2019re doing to keep them safe, their families safe, their communities safe.\u00a0 Everybody wants to know what you\u2019re doing to create a safer environment for them, correct?<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 That\u2019s right, and they really need to understand that community corrections does provide that function.\u00a0 You know, without them, I can\u2019t imagine what types of things would happen, and how ill people, some of those offenders may be, and you know, it\u2019s keeping the community safe, but also providing opportunities for offenders to change their behavior.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 And the weird thing about it is, I think there\u2019s research from the bureau of justice assistance \u2013 I\u2019m sorry, statistics, bureau of justice statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, talking about the fact that I think one in every 40 Americans is under some form of community supervision, either probation, which is probably 85% of them, or parole or supervised release, which means you come out of the prison system, or on pre-trial, or on some sort of juvenile supervision.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s 1 out of every 40, now that\u2019s currently under supervision.\u00a0 If you count everybody who\u2019s been in contact with the criminal justice system, it\u2019s got to be at least 1 out of every 20, so the point is that anybody living in any metropolitan area anywhere within the United States or anywhere in this world, they\u2019re going to encounter on a day to day basis a lot of people who are either currently caught up in the criminal justice system or been somehow some way have had contact in the past with the criminal justice system, and I suppose the question is, is that if that person has a mental health issue, do you want that person under treatment being, you\u2019re interacting with that person every day, or do you want that person who needs treatment without treatment?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that the question?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that the inference that with these programs, we are safer?<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 That\u2019s absolutely true.\u00a0 For those people with mental illness, unfortunately, a lot of times, they are caught up in situations where they\u2019re arrested for a crime, they\u2019re jailed, if they were on some sort of medication, they\u2019re more than likely not going to have that when they go to jail, so their situation deteriorates.\u00a0 Back and forth, that entire process of going through the criminal justice system is difficult for a lot of people, so having that support system in between, you know, we\u2019re talking about pretrial supervision, investigations, all the way through, they need that support to help them as well as to help the community.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen a variety of research on drug treatment, and it\u2019s not encouraging, that out of people caught up in the criminal justice system, I have seen figures ranging from 1 in 11 to 1 in 20.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry, let me go back.\u00a0 Either 11% get drug treatment, ranging from between 11% and 20% of people who need drug treatment caught up in the criminal justice system get drug treatment.\u00a0 So what that\u2019s saying is, very clearly, is that the overwhelming majority of people who need drug treatment don\u2019t get it, and I think that\u2019s one of the reasons why the bureau of justice assistance of the U.S. Department of Justice funded the American Probation and Parole Association to create marketingstrategies.org, so it\u2019s just not them who are talking about these issues, it is us here at Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, it is the people in Albuquerque, the people in Amarillo, the people in San Francisco, the people in Minnesota, all of us collectively are talking to our media about the need for programs.<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 True, and you know, a good place to find out about these programs are in, our website has some examples of these things, there are a number of federal websites for all sorts of programs that have been, they\u2019re evidence based, they\u2019ve been proven to work, and can be altered if they need to be for various agencies across the country.\u00a0 It never hurts to ask questions.\u00a0 You know, it goes, everything from technology and information sharing, the global justice information sharing project is a fabulous place if someone is looking for sharing offender information across jurisdictions with law enforcement, with, from community corrections to jails and prisons, there\u2019s so much information out there that all you need to do is look for it or ask for it.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 And I think that\u2019s one of the interesting things, because we have you, and now you\u2019re a membership based organization, and I am a member, have been a member for the last couple years, but so, you don\u2019t have to be a member to go to the website, and to take a look at either APPA\u2019s website, or the marketing strategies website, and to glean an awful lot of good information just from the websites.<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 Right, and I provide information to nonmembers as well as members.\u00a0 I don\u2019t, when somebody gives me a call, I don\u2019t look them up and say, oh, you\u2019re not a member, I can\u2019t help you.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 There you go, and that\u2019s what I like about APPA.\u00a0 You help everybody, but I did not want to put those words in your mouth, so I appreciate the fact that you guys do that, believe me.\u00a0 Okay, so the parole and probation officers week, I\u2019m, do I have that correctly, July 18-24, that\u2019s what I call it, but it\u2019s had another name?<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 We refer to it as the probation, parole, and community supervision week.\u00a0 We want to include as many groups involved in a very detailed profession as we can.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 Right, because you have pre-trial, you have juvenile.<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 Right, right.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 Okay, and what is that all about?<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 Well, we celebrate a week every July, it\u2019s generally the second week in July, second or third week, looks like.\u00a0 We produce a website, we produce\u00a0a new poster every year with a theme, this year\u2019s theme is support for a second chance, reflecting, you know, all of the funding that has come from the federal government into the second chance act, and it\u2019s, you know, most people think of the second chance for parolees, but unfortunately, there are a number of people who need a second chance who have been in and out of a jail, a community jail, or community transitional housing, so those services are needed for others besides just parolees.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 Well, the second chance act, did you want to explain what the second chance act is?<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 The second chance act is a federally legislated funding program, was first passed through Congress, and then a year or so later received some funding from the U.S. Congress to provide grant funds for various agencies for things like jobs programs for offenders, treatment services for offenders, mental health programs, just a myriad of programs to assist offenders coming out of prisons and jails, just to get their lives on track and to make sure that they are getting the services that they need to become law abiding citizens.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 And I think that that\u2019s an amazing thing, because you have legislation from the federal government.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had bits and pieces of it in the past, but certainly this is significant.\u00a0 There are hundreds of millions of dollars involved for community organizations, for parole and probation agencies, for a wide variety of groups to actually apply for funds, and to do reentry programs, offender reentry programs in their own communities, and it doesn\u2019t, to my knowledge, I don\u2019t think it has to be limited to solely to people coming out of the prison system, although I may be wrong about that.\u00a0 IT has to do with community supervision across the board.<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 Pretty much.\u00a0 I mean, they, the first set of funding proposals that were sent out, have covered a number of different programs.\u00a0 I think, like I said earlier, most people do think about parole, parole release as that second chance, and giving services to parolees to get back into the communities, but I don\u2019t know that it is specifically limited just for that.\u00a0 It\u2019s a pretty wide net.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 But I think it is significant that there are hundreds of millions of dollars now coming from the federal government that weren\u2019t there before, and hopefully, we can evaluate some of these programs and get a sense as to, a) do they work as well as everybody suggested that they do, and b) what are the specific strategies that make programs, some programs stronger than others?<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 Right, and what the federal government also urges is that these programs be evidence based, so that they are replicated, they can be replicated across different agencies and different areas, different jurisdictions.\u00a0 You know, there are some pretty stringent rules on when they hand out money, and what the reporting process is for that.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 Diane, we only have a couple minutes left in the program.\u00a0 I did want to touch upon the resolutions.\u00a0 You have one, on pre-trial supervision, victim restitution, restitution of voting rights, and felony tax refund intercept.\u00a0 These are four resolutions that are going to be sent out to the membership of APPA?<\/p>\n

Diane Kincaid:\u00a0 We have recently had several of these resolutions passed on and reviewed by our executive committee and board of directors.\u00a0 There are a number of different things that come out of federal initiatives that we support, oftentimes, our representative or a senator at the federal level will introduce a bill, and we will see that as something that is encouraging for community corrections, and we will write a resolution for our membership supporting that.\u00a0 That happened for restoration of voting rights, and actually, our executive director was in D.C. a month or so ago, actually a couple months ago, and presented testimony in front of a House subcommittee supporting that legislation and emphasizing how important restoring rights is to offenders.<\/p>\n

Len Sipes:\u00a0 Sorry we didn\u2019t get to the other three in terms of an explanation, but we are out of time, and I would, Diane, again, I want to thank you for all of the services that you provide to thousands of individuals every year, simply in terms of answering the questions and being sort of the front person for the American Probation and Parole Association, so we are grateful.\u00a0 Ladies and gentlemen, today we\u2019ve been talking to Diane Kincaid, the Deputy Director of the American Parole, Probation and Parole Association, two websites, www.appa-net.org<\/a> is the principal website.\u00a0 The marketing website is www.ccmarketingstrategies.org.\u00a0 Ladies and gentlemen, like I said before, we\u2019re up to 200,000 requests on a monthly basis for D.C. Public Safety.\u00a0 For the television shows, for the radio shows, for the blog and the transcripts, you can go to media \u2013 M-E-D-I-A \u2013 dot-csosa \u2013 C-S-O-S-A \u2013 dot-gov to access those four services.\u00a0 You can comment in the comments section, and we do get about 10-12 comments out of the comments section every single day.\u00a0 You can contact me directly, Leonard, L-E-O-N-A-R-D \u2013 dot-sipes \u2013 S-I-P-E-S – @csosa.gov.\u00a0 You can follow us on twitter at twitter.com\/lensipes, L-E-N-S-I-P-E-S one word, we\u2019ll take all of your comments, whether they are positive or negative, and we appreciate your suggestions in terms of future programs, and you have yourselves a very pleasant day.<\/p>\n

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