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April 12, 2021
The Police Officers Association of Connecticut (POACT), with the Stamford Police Association (SPA), hosted a conference in Stamford to spotlight the 68 cancers, respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases that responders and others were exposed to at the World Trade Center site following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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The event was designed to guide Connecticut responders to act before an upcoming July 29, 2021 deadline to file for the World Trade Center Health Program and Victim Compensation Fund.
Police leaders are encouraging senior officers and retirees or their families to act, especially given the terribly fatal impact of the Covid-19 virus on 9/11 community members.
Opinion: Do not banish police and school resource officers from Connecticut
Kris Engstrand
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Wilton School Resource Officer Diane Maclean greeted Miller-Driscoll students on the first day of school in 2019 in Wilton, Connecticut.Bryan Haeffele / Hearst Connecticut Media
As a law enforcement veteran and parent of school-age children, I can rest easy knowing they and their classmates can learn in a safe environment.
For this, I credit and thank, our faculty and administration, and local school resource officers, whose job it is to keep our kids safe.
However, such a safe school atmosphere may soon give way to political grandstanding, as those in public office look to create new bureaucracies and red tape for our schools, jeopardizing the safety of Connecticut’s children.
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