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County Commissioner Uses His Surgical Skills in Haiti NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES ■ WASHINGTON, D.C. VOL. 42, NO. 2 ■ February 1, 2010 Dem leaders Social weigh options Web sites for moving catching on health reform in counties legislation BY CHARLIE BAN STAFF WRITER BY PAUL V. B EDDOE ASSOCIATE LEGISLATIVE DIRECTOR Communicating directly with individuals is easier than ever with President Obama called on the proliferation of social media Web Congress to pass comprehensive sites, but a NACo survey shows 55 health reform legislation in his fi rst percent of counties don’t make use State of the Union address without of these tools. laying out a specifi c path to achieve Facebook and Twitter, among that end. other Web sites, allow users to release Four options — and variations information directly to the public into thereof — appear to be on the table a community of people who have demonstrated interest by becoming a See HEALTH REFORM page 3 fan of or following a county on those sites, respectively. Rather than relying QuickTakes on a resident to visit a county’s Web site to read news releases, updates Five Large Counties with forward directly to user’s accounts. the Greatest Of 121 respondents, more counties Decrease Photo by Charles Taylor use Twitter (50 users) than Facebook Fairfax County, Va. Emergency Services offi cer Tim Dingess and his dog Lago accompanied Virginia Task (43 users), but many use both. in Weekly Wage Force 1 to Haiti to search for survivors. Lago was previously deployed after an earthquake in Iran. For The majority of counties that more reports on how counties are contributing to the Haitian earthquake relief, see page 5. have a social media presence delegate the responsibility for administrating Santa Clara County, Calif. -$79 them to their public information Weld County, Colo. -$68 offi cers or whichever department Douglas County, Colo. -$55 maintains the account. Trumbull County, Ohio -$53 County commissioner uses Teresa Hamilton Hall, Roanoke Brazoria County, Texas -$44 County, Va.’s public information Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2nd quarter 2008 – 2009 average, reposted January 2010 his surgical skills in Haiti See NETWORKS page 12 BY CHARLES TAYLOR or hand? Or giving permission to a Dr. Kessler went to Haiti as part CountyNews SENIOR STAFF WRITER stranger to cut off your child’s limb?” of a medical team assembled by INSIDE >> he wrote, replying to County News’ Mission Possible (www.ourmission- Features Howard Kessler survived an questions via e-mail. “How does the ispossible.org), a relief organization. XModel Programs earthquake in the Dominican surgeon cope? He copes sometimes As he would fi nd out, it was a giant Republic some 30 years ago during well and sometimes not so well, but step from “wanting to go” and fi nd- XNews From the Nation’s his medical training. Last month, how does the parent cope?” ing a way to get there. He contacted Counties the Wakulla County, Fla. com- After the quake struck Jan. 12, numerous elected offi cials, state XNACo on the Move mission chairman was back on the Dr. Kessler knew that with Haiti so organizations and relief agencies. In island of Hispaniola — this time in near to Florida, he had to go. the end, it was a temporary county XProfiles in Service Haiti — volunteering to mend the “I had never traveled to another employee, Teresa Mercer, who put X broken bones of Haitian earthquake country to respond to a national him in touch with someone con- NACo’s Justice and Public Safety Research News victims. disaster. I felt I had the skills that nected with Mission Possible. They Steering Committee sets policy XThe H.R. Doctor Is in Dr. Kessler is an orthopedic were needed to really help in this left Florida on Jan. 17. agenda for 2010 >> Page 2 surgeon, a specialty in great demand tragic event,” he said, “and I felt I The group was bound for Saint- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to XWhat’s in a Seal? after the disaster struck. Upon his could not stand by without trying Marc, a coastal town in western release county health rankings XIn Case You Missed It return to Florida last week, he to help.” Haiti, about 60 miles from the >> Page 3 recalled the heartbreak of having to That comes as no surprise to capital Port-au-Prince. But fi rst, Broward County, Fla. is working hard XIn My View ... perform an amputation on a 2-year- his wife, Anne Van Meter. Years there were innumerable hurdles to to get the census count right. >> Page 4 old “beautiful girl.” ago, she said, a physician told her overcome. XFinancial Services News Scam artists on the run in San “Can you imagine giving permis- husband, “You’re a doctor, that’s Bernardino County, Calif. >> Page 8 XJob Market / Classifieds sion to a stranger to cut off your leg what you do.” See DR. KESSLER page 7 2 February 1, 2010 CCountyountyNNewsews • Counties look for strategies to reduce jail populations BY JIM PHILIPPS The meeting’s keynote speaker designing policies to lower jail and MEDIA RELATIONS MANAGER was U.S. District Court Judge Jack prison populations. Zouhary, Northern District of Related issues discussed included Alleviating overcrowding in the Ohio. Zouhary discussed “Build- “justice reinvestment,” which creates nation’s county jails and state prisons ing Reentry Bridges” relating to the partnerships to lower jail and prison was the focus of discussion during Second Chance Act. The legislation, populations and takes the savings for the NACo Justice and Public Safety along with the $2 billion addition to making reinvestments in prevention, (JPS) Steering Committee policy and the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant treatment, housing and other re- strategy meeting Jan. 20–23 in Bexar Program under the Recovery Act, entry services. County (San Antonio), Texas. provides assistance to counties, and Justice reentry and reinvestment The annual policy and strat- other state and local governments in are JPS committee priorities this egy meeting enables members of developing programs that will help year. Through the committee’s NACo’s JPS committee to meet persons leaving jail, prison or juvenile work, NACo will urge Congress to with national experts and discuss facilities to successfully re-enter their lower jail recidivism and reinvest important criminal justice, public communities. the savings by reauthorizing the safety and homeland security Other featured guest speakers Second Chance Act and adopting issues on behalf of the nation’s included Dan A. Naranjo, a na- companion legislation (Justice 3,068 counties. The JPS commit- tionally renowned mediator, and Reinvestment Act). Photo courtesy of Bexar County, Texas tee is responsible for developing Dr. Allen T. Craddock, St. Mary’s According to the U.S. Bureau David Hudson (l), chair of NACo’s Justice and Public Safety Committee, NACo policy in these areas. The University attorney-mediator. Both of Justice statistics, there are ap- presents NACo’s Distinguished Service Award to Leon Evans, president committee is chaired by David spoke about effective strategies for proximately 13 million admissions and chief executive offi cer of the Bexar County, Texas Center for Health Hudson, county judge, Sebastian using mediation by state associations to county jails each year. And of that Care Services. He was honored for his work in justice and health reform. Evans is the immediate past president of the National Association of County, Ark. of counties and state governments in number approximately 700,000 to County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors. 800,000 individuals are committed to state prison. An estimated two- thirds of jail inmates are in “pretrial knowledge of committee members recidivism could produce billions of This Month in ... status,” meaning they are being held and some of the top experts in the dollars in cost savings.” without conviction at a great cost to country. As part of the JPS committee local taxpayers. Further, statistics “NACo had a signifi cant role in meetings, committee members show that of all the un-convicted developing the re-entry and reinvest- toured Bexar County’s two primary County inmates, the majority (65 percent) ment legislation and making the crisis jail diversion facilities for per- are nonviolent offenders and are case for a strong local government sons with mental illness and sub- prime candidates for effective pretrial involvement and an expansion of stance abuse. These programs won News services programs. pretrial services,” Hudson said. the Gold Medal of the American Hudson said the annual policy “Counties spend more than $70 bil- Psychiatric Association. County News celebrates NACo’s 75th Anniversary with meetings of the JPS committee have lion each year on criminal justice and For more information, contact a look back at the issues and events that affected counties been enormously helpful in shap- billions more on health and human Donald Murray at 202.942.4239 or over the past several decades. ing NACo’s policies based on the services, so even a small reduction in [email protected]. ● February ● 1982 In My View ... • NACo, the Stanford Research Institute and the U.S. Conference of Mayors launched the Public Policy Options Project to collaborate in developing public policy options to serve the aged. Is it time for your county to think 1992 • NACo First Vice President John H. Stroger Jr. told the House about a little ‘creative destruction?’ Budget Committee that fi scal problems were ravaging county govern- ments and that federal action, including eliminating federal tax cuts, BY JIM MULDER take to fi gure out that newspapers still use paper to maintain records. might be needed to stimulate the economy. A NACo survey showed EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, are this era’s dead horse and it’s He might note how we dispatch three out of four responding counties had to reduce services or cut ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA COUNTIES time to get off? emergency services from hundreds staff to balance their budgets.
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