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Deputy Honored as ACA Corrections Officer
Congratulations to Deputy Olugbenga Shomade, he is following the footsteps of his Work Release co-workers and supervisors and setting a trend in the process.

In May, Deputy Shomade passed the ACA Corrections Officer Exam. With this accomplishment, Shomade became the first driver to obtain this status and the fourth Work Release employee to receive ACA certification.

Citizen Praises Sheriff's Innovative Programs

Dear Sheriff Neustrom:

Just so you know that I do write complimentary letters in addition to those that criticize, please accept my praise for some of your innovative programs that have been recently highlighted in the media. The programs I speak of are the direct supervision of prisoners approach; the off-site telecommunication visitation for families of prisoners; the call program for the elderly; and the day reporting programs for some offenders. All of these programs show your very humanistic approach to corrections and the general human condition. You are a different kind of sheriff from the standard old Louisiana model, and it has taken some adjustment by the jaded downtown crowd (myself included) to see the wisdom of your ways. Anyway, thank you for your innovative programs, and I am always available with an opinion. I don't lack opinions.

With kind regards, I remain Very truly yours, Albert M. Karre', Jr.

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Neustrom Honors Deputies of the Quarter

Thursday, April 11, 2002

The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff Michael W. Neustrom would like to recognize the following outstanding Deputies who are being honored as Deputy of the Quarter within their respective Divisions.

Administration
Deputy Kathy Piccione – Civil Seizure and Sales, is a seven-year veteran of the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office. She has efficiently and professionally handled massive amounts of paperwork for seizures and sales, spending extra hours on weekends and in the evenings to complete these tasks. Piccione “continues to make herself available whenever called upon for assistance in other sections of the division and is a great asset to the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office.”

Corrections
Sergeant Walter Sampy, a 17-year veteran of the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office, currently serves as the Food Production Supervisor for the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center. Sgt Sampy always projects a positive attitude. He is a professional chef with over 40 years of culinary experience, and routinely accomplishes the difficult task of teaching inmate workers with little or no experience. He has successfully molded inmate workers into bakers, cooks, pantry/inventory control workers as well as modified diet cooks. This teaching is done while coordinating other food service tasks – serving almost one million meals/year – and while battling diabetes (he receives dialysis 3 days/week after his eight hour shift).

Enforcement
Deputy Mark Brasseaux, is a 12-year veteran, and is currently assigned to the Criminal Warrants section of the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office. Earlier this year, Deputy Brasseaux’s outstanding display of investigative skills, interrogative skills and observatory skills” enabled him to clear several outstanding arrest warrants, and an armed robbery by locating and arresting both suspects. The weapon, ski mask and coveralls used in the robbery were also recovered. From the time the warrants were signed, to the time both suspects were apprehended was approximately two and ½ hours.

Donna Delahoussaye
Media Relations/Project Coordinator
Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office
337-236-5814