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Jessica
Poston and Stacy Brown |
Boundary County Chief Probation Officer Stacy
Brown and juvenile probation officer Jessica
Poston were honored for the quality of their
work Monday, September 12, during the Idaho
Juvenile Justice Conference in
Moscow.
Brown, who began as
juvenile probation officer here November 4, 2008, and was promoted to
chief probation officer when Jackie Bacon
retired May 3, 2010, was named the Idaho Juvenile Justice
Association District 1 administrator of the
year, and Poston, who began with the department
May 26, 2010, was named the
association’s District 1 line worker of the
year.
“I’m very proud of my
department,” Stacy said. “It’s a team effort,
and we have an excellent crew.”
Jessica, who graduated from
Bonners Ferry High School in 2004 and went on to
earn a degree in social work from Lewis and
Clark State College, said she wasn’t expecting
to be so honored.
“It came as a surprise,”
she said. “I was just doing my job.”
In fact, she feels
fortunate, she said, to be able to work in her
home town.
“I was looking for the
opportunity to work with troubled youth and
youth facing drug and alcohol addictions,” she
said. “I was fortunate that just such a job
opened up in my home town!”
County commission chair Ron
Smith, who serves on the recently formed Idaho
Misdemeanor Planning Committee and the
Misdemeanor Training Council, lauded their
achievement, the first of their kind in
Boundary
County.
“I was appointed to these
boards at about the same time Stacy became chief
probation officer, and it’s great to see how
much progress has been made, and how well our
people are doing,” he said. “Every member of the
probation department is now, for the first time,
POST certified, and Stacy did so well she’s now
an instructor at the academy. It’s great to see
them get such recognition for the dedication
they bring to their jobs, and the entire
department deserves credit.”
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