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Mount Vernon Police Department job-shadow participant Maddie Herring introduces herself
Summary
Maddie Herring, an IOS program job-shadow participant from Anacortes, described her education, interest in records work and appreciation for Mount Vernon Police Department community outreach during remarks recorded in the meeting transcript.
Maddie Herring, an IOS program participant from Anacortes, Washington, introduced herself during the meeting transcript and said she is job-shadowing with the Mount Vernon Police Department.
Herring said she holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Central Washington University with double minors in criminal justice and sociology and attended Anacortes High School and Skagit Valley College. “I really kind of saw myself in a supporting role for the Mount Vernon Police Department, and I saw a records specialist, and I was like, oh, this is perfect,” Herring said.
She described the police department as welcoming and highlighted its community outreach. “The thing that sets the Mount Vernon Police Department from other police departments in the area is the community outreach,” Herring said, adding that her college coursework led her to study department policies and that she appreciated the variety of daily tasks in records work.
Herring also spoke about personal interests outside work: she attends anime conventions such as Sakuracon, cosplays, plays Dungeons & Dragons, goes to concerts and cares for a Shiba Inu named Sheeka. The transcript does not specify whether her remarks were made during the public comment period or another agenda item.
No formal actions, votes or policy decisions related to Herring’s remarks are recorded in the transcript.
