The Role of Department of Corrections, Public Information Officer

The Role of Department of Corrections, Public Information Officer
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The Role of Department of Corrections, Public Information Officer
As a Public Information Officer, my objective is to link the community and the state in terms of information. The goal of the Public Information Officer is to provide information on the state prisons and parole areas.
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Law enforcement officers play an integral role in ensuring law and order are maintained. The Department of Corrections has a significant role in coordinating the parole areas and the state prison. The goal of every police officer in America is to reinforce law effectively as per the set policies. Laws, policing, ethics, values, integrity, and public trust are the main components of the Department of Corrections (U.S Department of State, 2011). Public perception of a Public Information Officer (PIO) in state paroles and prisons is significant. However, there is always friction between the public and the PIO. Delivering the information from the department of corrections at the state level to the public can have a lot of challenges (Stimmler, 2019). For example, the wrong perception of the information released can lead to reduced funding or heavy criticism.
The extension of these problems is massive because they question the integrity of a PIO. The values and the laws can be compromised when integrity is not pursued. Therefore, it is critical to understand the difference between law, policing, ethics, deals, and public interests. A proper examination of these components will help understand the role of a PIO. Standards of morality are specific rules that help govern and evaluate human behavior (Stimmler, 2019). Laws are rules which are established and reinforced by the authority. In this case, they must be obeyed, and when broken, the involved parties are bound to...