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Media Relations Office:
Director Dora Schriro's Address
During Hispanic Heritage Month, all of us who serve the state as members of the Arizona Department of Corrections team have a special opportunity, a terrific opportunity to learn more about one another, to share the spirit and richness of the Latino community and celebrate its culture whose cornerstones - family, faith and hard work – are characteristic of the considerable contributions our colleagues and co-workers who are Hispanic Americans generously give to our community and our correctional system. Our honorees are distinguished members of the largest and fastest growing group in America, in Arizona and in the Arizona Department of Corrections where our Hispanic American co-workers provide a commanding presence as 28% of the ADC workforce. From correctional officers to administrators, you ably represent the department with excellence at every post and in every position in our agency. Today is super day to start two new traditions at ADC. The first, of course, is to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month every year, starting this year, together. The second is to introduce a new award, the Dudley Do-Right Award, and to recognize several of this afternoon’s honorees as the department’s first recipients of the Do-Right because, well because, you did Do Right! The Do-Right is a way to recognize – just like today’s program – terrific corrections professionals. And like today’s program, it starts with a recommendation by a co-worker and colleague who “caught” you (our honorees) Doing Right at work and in the community. So, come clean now, how many of you really remember the cartoon character, Dudley Do-Right, member extraordinaire of the Royal Canadian Mounties, fearless crime fighter and champion of public safety? No? Not too many? Well, maybe this will help. I’d like to take a moment or two to tell you a bit about our first-ever Do-Right awardees. 1. Captain Gilbert Cancio, ASPC-Lewis 2. Sergeant John Chavez, ASPC-Florence 3. Sergeant Patricia Cruz, ASPC-Safford 4. Sergeant Steven Flores, ASPC-Douglas 5. Personnel Analyst II Marcella Gallagher, ASPC-Florence 6. Sergeant Steven Gallardo, COTA 7. Training Officer 1 Jesus Martinez, ASPC-Eyman 8. CO II Ana Mendez, ASPC-Phoenix 9. CO III Teresa Ortiz, ASPC-Safford 10. Captain Maria Lupia Slyter, ASPC-Safford And so it is that today we come together as a community to recognize a community that is an integral part of the enduring legend of the Old West and integral to growth and development in today’s Arizona, a community that is critical to our effectiveness as Arizona’s premier public safety organization. We are neighbors. We are colleagues. We are one. We are the Arizona Department of Corrections. And together, only together, we set our course to flagship status.
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