Hausner is the chairman of the crime watchdog group Safe Silver Spring and has been a civic activist in Montgomery County for 30 years. What does Safe Silver Spring do?
We’re a community-based crime-prevention group. We had a summit in May 2009 … [and] came up with a series of recommendations dealing with youth issues, dealing with police. … We’ve been working with county government and the community to implement those. One is a youth advisory committee, where teenagers would have more of a say over programs they participate in. We had made some recommendations about truancy, since a lot of truants end up getting into crime and gangs. … Out of that came a recommendation to implement truancy court programs.
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