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Live Every First Tuesday of
the Month
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
11AM TO 12NOON
Hosted by Kenneth E.
Barnes, Sr, MS Founder/CEO
ROOT INC.
Co-Hosted by Sonya
"Truth" Hughes, Programs
Officer, ROOT, Inc.
SPIRIT IN ACTION CALL IN
NUMBER 202-588-0893
Join us this Tuesday from 11am
until noon as we talk with
Paul Quander,
Director of Court Services and
Offender Supervision (CSOSA). Be
sure to call in with your
questions and comments as we
learn what actions CSOSA is
taking to successfully re-enter
ex-offenders into society and
how their programs are aimed to
keep our streets safe.
About Paul Quander
President Bush announced his
intention to nominate Paul A.
Quander, Jr. on October 18,
2001. Upon his confirmation by
the United States Senate as the
first Director of the Court
Services and Offender
Supervision Agency (CSOSA) on
August 5, 2002, Quander pledged
to make CSOSA a national model
for offender supervision. As
Director of CSOSA, Quander
oversees a growing federal
agency created by the D.C.
Revitalization Act of 1997.
CSOSA is responsible for
supervising adults on probation,
parole and supervised release in
the District of Columbia.
Prior to his assumption of the
Director’s position, Quander,
47, served as an Assistant
United States Attorney here in
the District of Columbia. He
left that office as the Chief of
the Seventh District Major
Crimes Homicide Section. Prior
to that, Quander had been Deputy
Director for the District of
Columbia Department of
Corrections and from 1982 to
1989 served in a number of
positions with the District of
Columbia Office of the
Corporation Counsel. Quander
began his professional career
working for Neighborhood Legal
Services representing indigent
clients in public benefit
administrative hearings,
landlord and tenant civil
actions, as well as various
small claims trials.
Paul A. Quander, Jr. has been
the recipient of the Corporation
Counsel Award for Sustained
Superior Performance in 1985 and
1987. He received Special
Achievement Awards from the U.S.
Department of Justice in 1997,
1998 and 1999 and was the U.S.
Department of Justice Senior
Litigation Counsel in 2000.
Quander holds a B.A. degree in
political science from Virginia
State University and a J.D. from
Howard University School of Law.
He resides in Washington D.C.
with his wife and two children.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Thank you for Joining us
on this Tuesday
from 11am until noon as we interviewed
esteemed guest
Chief of Police Cathy Lanier
of the Washington, DC Metropolitan
Police Department. Be
sure to call in with your questions
and comments as we learn what
actions the police are taking to
increase public safety, reduce
increasing incidents of youth
violence, and gun violence.
Metropolitan Police Department
Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of Police
Cathy L. Lanier was selected for the
position of Chief of the
Metropolitan Police Department by DC
Mayor Adrian Fenty in November 2006.
She officially assumed the
leadership position on January 2,
2007, and was unanimously approved
for confirmation as the new Chief by
the Council of the District of
Columbia on April 3, 2007.
Chief Lanier has spent her entire
law enforcement career with the
Metropolitan Police Department,
beginning in 1990. Most of her
career has been in uniformed patrol,
where she served as Commander of the
Fourth District, one of the largest
and most diverse residential patrol
districts in the city. She also
served as the Commanding Officer of
the Department’s Major Narcotics
Branch and Vehicular Homicide Units.
More recently, Chief Lanier served
as Commander of the Special
Operations Division (SOD) for four
years, where she managed the
Emergency Response Team, Aviation
and Harbor Units, Horse Mounted and
Canine Units, Special
Events/Dignitary Protection Branch,
and Civil Disturbance Units. During
her tenure as SOD Commander, she
established the agency’s first
Homeland Security/Counter-Terrorism
Branch and created an agency-wide
chemical, biological, radiological
response unit known as the Special
Threat Action Team.
In 2006, the MPDC’s Office of
Homeland Security and
Counter-Terrorism (OHSCT) was
created, and Chief Lanier was tapped
to be its first Commanding Officer.
A highly respected professional in
the areas of homeland security and
community policing, she took the
lead role in developing and
implementing coordinated
counter-terrorism strategies for all
units within the MPDC and launched
Operation TIPP (Terrorist Incident
Prevention Program).
Chief Lanier is a graduate of the
FBI National Academy and the federal
Drug Enforcement Administration’s
Drug Unit Commanders Academy. She
holds Bachelor’s and Master’s
Degrees in Management from Johns
Hopkins University, and a Master’s
Degree in National Security Studies
from the Naval Postgraduate School
in Monterey, California. She is
certified at the technician level in
Hazardous Materials Operations.
Government of the District of
Columbia
Washington, DC
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