Dear Colleagues: The latest television show for the Internet and local broadcast is available from the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency. The series is titled “DC Public Safety.”
The topic is the successful Fugitive Safe Surrender program. 530 offenders with nonviolent warrants voluntarily surrendered in a church in November. Please see the attached press release. Please see www.dcsafesurrender.org.
The address for “DC Public Safety” television and radio programs is http://media.csosa.gov.
A new article on CSOSA Podcasting is available from the How E-Government is Changing Society project. It’s on our web site, www.csosa.gov.
AOL Video calls “DC Public Safety” and the Fugitive Safe Surrender TV ads the highest rated videos for the government and nonprofit category.
As always, we appreciate your interest in the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency.
Best, Len Sipes
“A National Model of Public Communications”
According to recent Internet searches, “DC Public Safety” is one of the most popular criminal justice and reentry podcasts in the country.
“DC Public Safety” recorded 430,000 hits since its inception.
See http://www.usdoj.gov/fbci/progmenu_whatsnew.html
for an example of how the show is being used by the Department of Justice. See http://www.justicetalking.org/resources.asp
for the resource page of “Justice Talking” from National Public Radio. We are on the podcast page for USA.GOV
http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Libraries/Podcasts/PublicSafety.shtml.
We are also featured by the National Institute of Corrections http://nicic.org/Library/022301.
We have been referred to as “A national model of public communications,” by Jane Browning, Executive Director of the International Community Corrections Association
We are now one of the top television programs (government and organizational category) for AOL Video, Digg.com and other rating services.
Leonard A. Sipes, Jr.
Senior Public Affairs Specialist
Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency
633 Indiana Ave. Washington, D.C. 20004(a federal, executive branch agency)
202-220-5616 (work) 240-882-8274 (cell)
www.csosa.gov; leonard.sipes@csosa.gov
http://media.csosa.gov (radio and television shows for the Internet)
