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NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release:  Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Hartford Police Department's Truancy
Reduction Program to hold Orientation

(Hartford) - On Wednesday, January 16, 2008, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., the Hartford Police Department's Truancy Reduction Program, funded under a grant from The Travelers, will host an orientation for approximately 70 students between the ages of five to twelve years of age and their families.  The event will be held at the Joe Young Studio located at 942 Main Street, Hartford, and will include a brief orientation of the Truancy Reduction program, dinner with the students and their families, and a tour of the Joe Young Studio, a partner in the Truancy Reduction initiative.

The media is welcome to attend the event and tour of the studio with students and their families.

For further information contact Hartford Police Department Juvenile Investigative Division Detective Dixon Vega at 806-757-4240. 

The following are links to previous reports, press releases and reports on Chief Daryl K. Roberts' Truancy Reduction Program, a partnership between the HPD, The Travelers and Hartford Public Schools.

HPD JID Truancy Prevention Program:
Chief Daryl K. Roberts Report on Hartford Police Department's Truancy Prevention Program - Executive Report. 
View PowerPoint Presentation.
(Video) - Chief Daryl K. Roberts Press Conference on Truancy Prevention Report:
WFSB TV 3 News Report July 23, 2007
WVIT NBC30 News Report July 23, 2007
(Video) - Hartford School Students honored by Chief Daryl K. Roberts for their Participation in the HPD's Truancy Prevention Program:
WVIT, NBC 30 News Report, June, 2007
WFSB, Channel 3 News Report, June 200
 

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Contact:   Nancy Mulroy, Public Information Officer, Hartford Police Department,  (860) 757-4021
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