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published Tuesday recommended significant changes to Centre County’s police departments.
The Task Force on Policing and Communities of Color spent eight months reviewing local police data and practices from six different departments, including State College, Bellefonte, and Penn State’s campus police.
The report recommends police departments overhaul their hiring efforts to diversify units and better represent their communities. It also suggests implementing specialized training for officers in areas like mental health, substance abuse and domestic violence.
Additionally, the report found the six examined police departments all track data differently. The group recommended creating consistency to cut down on potential biases.
The town-and-gown Task Force on Policing and Communities of Color released a new report this week reviewing progress made in the last five years and making recommendations to further improve police-community relations in Centre County.
When it was originally formed in 2015, the task force focused on the State College Police Department and Penn State University Police and Public Safety. Reconvened last fall, the task force this time also surveyed each of Centre County’s other police forces — Bellefonte Borough and Ferguson, Patton and Spring townships.
Since September 2020, the reconvened task force comprised of 31 university faculty, staff and administrators and community leaders assessed data, procedures and practices from local police departments that could contribute to bias, studied progress made since the 2016 report, identified areas where progress is needed and made new recommendations for improving relationships among law enforcement and minority groups.
College of Education students among Presidential Leadership Academy participants
Valarie Hibbard, left, will start her three-year experience with the Presidential Leadership Academy this fall. Ashley Griffith, center, visited the Grand Old Opry as part of her PLA experience. She will enter her final year of the PLA this fall. Maude Tarbox, right, and other PLA members went to Baltimore in 2018. She graduated from the College of Education this spring.
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College of Education students among Presidential Leadership Academy participants
Annemarie Mountz
May 24, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Each spring, 30 first-year students on the University Park campus learn they have risen to the top in a highly competitive selection process to become part of the next class of sophomores in the Presidential Leadership Academy (PLA).