Maricopa County Supervisor, Don Stapley, District 2, was awarded the National Probation Executives’ Arthur Neu Award for Exceptional Policy Development and a $500 stipend to donate to a charity of his choice.
Supervisor Stapley has chosen to donate the $500 to the 100 Club of Arizona, a non-profit organization whose mission is, in part, to give financial assistance to families of public-safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty.
Sergeant Chris Moore of the City of Phoenix Police Department attended a public Board of
Supervisors meeting where he accepted the $500 check on behalf of the 100 Club.
The national Arthur Neu Award recognizes Supervisor Stapley’s outstanding public service and exceptional policy development, particularly concerning efforts on behalf of those with serious mental illness in the criminal justice system. In 2005, Stapley formed the Commission of Justice System Intervention for the Seriously Mentally Ill (SMI) comprising other local elected officials and community leaders. The primary objective of the SMI Commission is to remove the seriously mentally ill population from the overcrowded county jails and transfer them to treatment programs.
On the heels of the recent rash of local officers dying the line of duty, it is fitting the award from a probation executives’ organization go to assist the families of public-safety officers.