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HSMI Director featured at Veterans Court Graduation


HSMI Director, Colonel John Perrone was the keynote speaker at the Rochester Veterans Court Graduation Ceremony at the Hall of Justice on March 12, 2012.

Veteran Courts are administrated by Judges of the 7th Judicial District and the Honorable Chief Administrative Judge Craig Doran. Several district judges, county officials and community-based service representatives attended the graduation.

These special courts are alternatives to incarceration for veterans that experience drug and alcohol problems that are associated with military service.  Locally, 65 veterans have graduated from the program.

Veteran courts have an unprecedented success rate and there are now over eighty courts in 28 states.  The first court was started here in western New York.

The Honorable Judge John Schwartz is the presiding Judge of the Rochester Veterans court following the retirement of Judge Patricia Marks who is now the Interim CEO of the Veterans Outreach Center.

Sheila Manns
Homeland Security Management Institute
03/14/2012