Mt. Pleasant police chief announces retirement plans Mount Pleasant Police Chief Carl Ritchie will retire after a 32-year law enforcement career this year, the town announced. (Source: Mount Pleasant Police Department) By Patrick Phillips | January 29, 2021 at 11:26 AM EST - Updated January 29 at 11:27 AM
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC) - Mount Pleasant Police Chief Carl Ritchie will retire after a 32-year law enforcement career this year, the town announced.
Richie will retire on May 7, according to a release from the town.
“Serving the Town of Mount Pleasant has been the honor of a lifetime,” Ritchie said. “None of it would have been possible without the department’s steadfast and courageous men and women dedicated to the community they protect. I would like to commend the entire police department for their unequalled commitment to excellence. I am equally grateful for the leadership and support the Mayor, Council and the Town Administrator have shown us throughout
Jan 29, 2021 / 08:14 AM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – A statewide coalition has a mission to bring social justice to people across the state.
Members are offering free training sessions to prevent and address the issue. They believe human trafficking is a rapidly growing crime across the United States and Indiana.
Research provided by ICESAHT shows 11,500 cases were reported of labor, sex and child sex trafficking in 2019. More than half, 58% of all forced labor victims are women and girls.
The coalition’s research mentioned there are documented cases of forced marriage, forced labor and sex trafficking of minors and adults across all 92 counties across Indiana.
New Academic Cybersecurity Center Names First Director
Anderson University has named Karl Perman, a U.S. Army veteran with a background in law enforcement and corporate security, as the first executive director of its new Center for Security Studies and Cyber Defense. by Rebecca Bibbs, The Herald Bulletin / January 28, 2021 Shutterstock/deepadesigns
Karl Perman
, a
U.S. Army veteran with a background in law enforcement and corporate security, as the first executive director of its new
Center for Security Studies and Cyber Defense, funded through a $1 million grant from the
Lilly Endowment and the
Avis Foundation. I am pleased to welcome Karl to campus to lead our cutting edge initiative to equip students for a career in cybersecurity, whether in the private sector or with federal, state or local agencies, all within the AU tradition of excellence, said AU President
USI Sexual Assault and Gender Violence Prevention group hosts human trafficking awareness presentation
USI Sexual Assault and Gender Violence Prevention group hosts human trafficking awareness presentation 1/20/2021 | University Communications
As a part of National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, the University of Southern Indiana Sexual Assault and Gender Violence Prevention Group (SAGVP) in collaboration with the Southwest Indiana Regional Coalition Against Trafficking (SIRCAT) will host Field Consultant Eric Harris, BSW, for a virtual presentation about human trafficking awareness on January 28 at 6 p.m. CST. This event is sponsored by the Indiana Trafficking Victims Assistance Program (ITVAP). The public can register for the Zoom webinar by going to USI.edu/laevents.
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Society of African-American Men members Zachary Gillish, a second-year mechanical engineering technology student, and first-year biomedical engineering student Malachi Wilson hand out pencils and Martin Luther King Day masks on the campus of Michigan Technological University Monday.
HOUGHTON In a normal year, university activities for Martin Luther King Day might include a banquet, or reading to elementary students.
Though the methods changed because of COVID-19, students still honored him Monday.
At Michigan Technological University, students manned booths giving away MTU MLK Day reusable masks and other supplies. People could also scan a QR code directing them to a Google Form to log steps for MTU’s team in the Million Steps for Martin march. The program, created by Anderson University in Indiana, invites people to participate in a virtual march for justice. (It is an pandemic-era version of Anderson’s traditi