Women Thank LAMC Employees For Selfless Dedication - 6:18 am
Brenda Grasmick, left, and Jennifer Martinez deliver Pampered Chef egg cookers Tuesday to all 242 LAMC employees to thank them for their selfless dedication during pandemic. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
By BONNIE J. GORDON
bjgordon@ladailypost.com
Jennifer Martinez is no stranger to charitable giving. In the past, she’s given gifts to healthcare workers and the homeless, but her latest gift venture is by far the largest.
Martinez, a regional representative for Pampered Chef, spearheaded a drive to purchase 242 egg cookers for every employee at Los Alamos Medical Center (LAMC) as a thank you gift for their service during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some parents and teachers in the Tampa Bay area are asking for changes in a program used by a Florida sheriff to profile students as potential criminals.
Associated PressDecember 11, 2020 GMT
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) Some parents and teachers in the Tampa Bay area are asking for changes in a program used by a Florida sheriff to profile students as potential criminals.
The Pasco County Council PTA asked school district officials to review the program and its data sharing agreement with the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office and other agencies, the Tampa Bay Times reported Friday.
In addition, a group of teachers is circulating a petition calling for the sheriff’s database of “at-risk” children to be deleted, the newspaper reported. They want the district to release demographic information on the students, and transfer some of the funding that covers school resource officers to academic and mental health resources.
Pasco PTA: Use of school data to flag potential criminals âunacceptableâ
Parents and teachers demanded reviews into the Sheriffâs Office program. Some called for it to be canceled.
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Pasco Schools superintendent Kurt Browning with Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco at a 2015 press conference. [ Times (2015) ]
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
Pasco County parents and teachers are calling for changes to a secretive Sheriffâs Office program that uses student data to profile schoolchildren as potential future criminals, with some demanding the practice be stopped entirely.
In a letter to the school district, the Pasco County Council PTA asked for reviews of the program and the districtâs data-sharing agreements with the Sheriffâs Office and other agencies.
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