Community Work Program – Riverside County News Source

Two-day Redding cleanup project clears waterways, removes debris

March 4, 2021 Trevor Montgomery

REDDING, Calif. — Community Work Program Officers (CWPOs), along with inmates from the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office Alternative Work Program, teamed up with Redding PD’s Neighborhood Police Unit and employees from the City of Redding Parks Department to conduct an extensive set of cleanup projects over two days this week. Despite the ongoing, nearly year-long COVID-19 global public health crisis, […]

Despite pandemic, Redding PD’s CWPO removed nearly 618,000 pounds of trash in 2020

January 4, 2021 Trevor Montgomery

REDDING, Calif. — Due to the ongoing, months-long COVID-19 global public health crisis, which has changed nearly all aspects of today’s society, the Redding Police Department’s Community Work Program (CWPO), has struggled with limited resources and limited availability of healthy and qualified inmate workers. However, despite COVID-19 concerns, as well as challenges and obstacles created by the pandemic, the department’s Community […]