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For the last five weeks several officers from Clearfield and Jefferson County have been undergoing training through the Right Turn Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) program.
On Wednesday afternoon police officers, probation officers and corrections officers graduated from the program at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania campus in Punxsutawney.
The group of officers is the inaugural class of officers trained through the program in Clearfield and Jefferson County.
The Right Turn Program is a joint effort of the Clearfield and Jefferson County Criminal Justice Advisory boards.
The purpose of the program is to teach officers how to handle people who are in crisis situations or people who have behavioral problems.
The program also teaches officers to know how to approach certain situations without having to arrest someone who might have a behavioral issue.
"We usually end up having to get physical with mentally ill patients. This will help cut down on officer injury, plus cut back on having more people put in jail who don't belong in jail," said Clearfield borough officer John Brown.
Organizers are hoping that they eventually will be able to offer the program training two or three times a year.
State prosecutors and Jerry Sandusky’s defense attorney met with presiding Judge John Cleland for more than two hours at a closed door status conference hearing inside the Centre County courthouse on Wednesday morning.
Defense attorney Joe Amendola filed a new court motion, asking the judge to drop nearly all of the child sex abuse charges filed against the former Penn State defensive coordinator last year, citing vague allegations, as well as charges connected to two alleged victims who still have not been identified or located by prosecutors.
Amendola and Deputy Attorney General Joseph McGettigan declined to comment about specifics of the hearing as they left the courthouse, citing a gag order handed down by the judge.
6News has confirmed that several hundred jury duty summons have been mailed out to Centre County residents with a standard questionnaire, and that nearly 200 have been returned.
The judge has yet to rule on Amendola’s second request to delay the trial, which is set to start with Jury selection on June 5.
Attorneys General from 44 states and the Federal Trade Commission have reached a settlement with Skecher USA, Inc.
Skecher conducted a national advertising campaign making numerous claims about its round bottom shoes saying "they provide many health benefits" but did not support the claims.
According to the lawsuit, the company advertised their toning shoes would promote weight loss, improve a user's blood circulation and reduce user's stress on joints along with a few other health-related claims.
Focusing market advertising on women, they promised weight loss results that were misleading to the consumers.
The states declare that there is no transformation between Skecher shoes and regular tennis shoes when focusing on any of the health improvements.
Under the settlement Sketcher is prohibited to make these claims without evidence.
In addition, up to $40 million is being allocated to return to consumers who purchased the shoes, Skecher is to pay an additional $5 million to the states. Pennsylvania is to receive more than $143 thousand.
Consumers who purchased the Shape-Ups, Tone-Ups or the Skecher Runner should go to the FTC website at www.ftc.gov/sketchers
Any consumer who has complaints with their health or advertising claims regarding the shoes is to contact Attorney General's Bureau of Consumer Protection by calling 800-441-2555 or by visiting www.attorneygeneral.gov.
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