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CRESS (Community Responders for Equity, Safety & Service) Who we are and what we do for your town

When:

Thursday, March 2, 2023, 4:00 PM until 5:30 PM

Event Contact(s):

Larry Steinhauser

Category:

Social and Cultural

Registration is required

Everyone

No Fee

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Join us on Thursday, March 2nd for a presentation by the CRESS (Community Responders for Equity, Safety & Service) staff on the services they offer and how they help strengthen our community.

CRESS provides community safety services in situations that don’t involve violence or serious crime. It creates a civilian, unarmed alternative to calls that might otherwise require a response from the Police Department. Its purpose is to ensure that any public safety response is anti-racist, equitable, just, and fair and that preventative services that get at the root of assisting our community members are offered to avoid necessitating public safety involvement in the first place.

In the words of CRESS director, Earl Miller, CRESS is defined as an alternative to traditional police response and is defined as a "co-equal department," meaning that it is not subordinate to any other emergency response team.