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SAN BERNARDINO - As CEO of the Public Safety Academy, Michael Dickinson often boasted to others at the charter school about his degrees from various colleges, according to current and former academy staff.
Dickinson claimed to have earned a doctorate from the University of Phoenix, a master's degree from the University of La Verne and a bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley.
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Since September the 11th, we have also implemented a new strategy to protect our borders. Posting Homeland security personnel at foreign ports. We've beefed up airport and seaport security here at home. We've instituted better visa screening for those entering the country. We want to know who is coming in the country, why they're coming in the country, and if they're leaving the country, when they're supposed to leave the country.
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Photo Gallery: Public Safety Academy
SAN BERNARDINO - In the warm morning sun, roughly 200 cadets stood in formation on the tarmac outside the Public Safety Academy's Galaxy Center, their red and black backpacks lining the curb before them.
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The Mount Joy campus of the Lancaster County Career & Technology Center will present certificates Tuesday to students completing their courses of study.
The event will be held at 7 p.m. at the Hempfield Performing Arts Center in Landisville.
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Allegations that a teacher and an administrator at a San Bernardino charter school failed to properly report allegations of sexual abuse against a 16-year-old cadet are the latest chapter in a saga that began last year as a feud between administrators and the school's board of trustees.
That feud culminated in July with the Public Safety Academy's board ousting school founder and CEO Michael Dickinson after a legal battle.
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Starting this week, students from the Public Safety Academy will accompany San Bernardino police officers on patrol and learn how to collect evidence.
It is some of the real-life training students at the school on the old Norton Air Force Base in southeast San Bernardino will get in the year ahead.
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Supt. Kriner Cash intends to turn either Manassas High or Hamilton High into a four-year public safety academy, annually turning out 200 potential Memphis police recruits as early as 2013.
You don't come out ready to be a police officer, but you are ready to pursue postsecondary training," Cash told The Commercial Appeal's editorial board this week.
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SAN BERNARDINO - Public Safety Academy CEO Michael Dickinson failed to notify authorities in October of a possible sexual relationship between a 16-year-old cadet at the charter school and a San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy, according to sheriff's reports.
On April 22 - nearly six months after the information was first reported to Dickinson - sheriff's detectives arrested Nathan Gastineau, a deputy who worked out of the Highland station, on suspicion of having sex with the girl, a sheriff's Explorer under Gastineau's supervision.
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DETROIT - Applications for summer internships in the Mayor's Time Public Safety and Service Academy (MTPSA) will be available starting March 17th at the Detroit Fire Training Academy (2775 W. Warren) and the Detroit Police Department (DPD) Police Community Services office (7310 Woodward). Students and young adults ages 16-18 are eligible to participate in the internship program. Applications are due by March 31.
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Nashima L. Lujan, daughter of Jerry O. and Shirley Lujan of Taos Pueblo, graduated May 11 from the Public Safety Telecommunicator Training Class #102 at the Department of Public Safety Training Academy in Santa Fe.
Lujan is employed with the New Mexico State Police in Espanola, and plans to continue her education in criminal justice.