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Wide range of options available for new graduates
BY CLAIRE MCINERNY editor@kansan.com
As some seniors are preparing for jobs and planning their lives after school,some students are experiencing a different scenario: the end of college panic.
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er. One opportunity that enables students to make that happen is through Teach for America. Teach For America is a program that allows recent college graduates to teach in public schools in low-income communities. The assignment lasts for two years.
Wiechman spent his two years in Saint Lucia doing community development. He helped a farmers' cooperative develop a grant proposal to get funding for a composting project from the United Nations and also taught reading and music at a school.
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a way to prolong having to find a job, but rather look at it as a way to find new opportunities and new ways for students to use their passions. She said a lot of politicians who now work in Congress were in the program and are now fighting for education rights.
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Johnson County police to get new 'ear cams' to record interactions
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OLATHE — Johnson County sheriff's deputies are among the first officers in the country to wear cameras on their ears, in an effort to provide a better record of what
happens during contact between officers and the public.
"It is a double-edged sword," Taser International Inc. spokesman Steve Tuttle said. "If there is something that is bad (done by police), it will catch it and still protect the public. It's a neutral observer."
The cameras, called AXON, also provide an evidence chain and help officers fill out paperwork more quickly, said Sgt. Paul Nonnast of the sheriff's offi
Johnson County is the only
"This gives us the ability to show what happens from the officer's point of view from start to finish."
SGT. PAUL NONAST Johnson County Sheriff's office
Johnson County Sheriff's Dept. Sgt. Paul Nonnast demonstrates on of the TASER Axon video system cameras. Johnson County sheriff's deputies are among the first officers in the country to wear cameras on their ears in an effort to provide a better record of what happens during contact between officers and the public.
of the sheriff's office.
department in the Kansas City area to buy the cameras and one of only 16 in the country, although 100 departments are testing them, Tuttle said.
"This gives us the ability to show what happens from the officer's point of view from start to finish," Nonnast said.
"This is a game changer,"
A spokesman for the company that makes the devices said the camera also protects the public.
he said. "Police and suspects behave better when they know it is being recorded."
Johnson County deputies are
The units cost about $1,700 each and about $1,300 more a year to store the digital video, The Kansas City Star reported.
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using them in domestic violence calls, on SWAT teams, for warrant searches and to document sobriety tests.
And at the end of the shift, the officer plugs the gear into a docking station that encrypts the video and
stores it on a Taser website. Video can't be altered by police and can be set to save for specified times.
The ear camera plugs into a chest unit that connects to a police radio and to a belt computer with a video monitor. It can be mounted on the helmet of a traffic officer, who could show a driver his violation. If a driver throws something out the window, the officer can also use it to get a GPS location.
"We have a solid evidence trail,a chain of custody," Nonnast said.
The camera can also be held to see around corners or into attics
The new product grew out of Taser's popular stun weapon. It had a camera on it but the camera came on only when officers used the Taser, Tuttle said. That led to the idea of a camera on sunglasses or a hat and then to the new product.
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