Mankato, MN – Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner will present a lecture on "Methamphetamine and the Plague of Addiction" on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 2 p.m. in the Ostrander Auditorium of Centennial Student Union at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Her presentation is the 5th Annual College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Advisory Board Lecture at Minnesota State Mankato. The public is invited to attend without charge.
Gaertner will talk about what methamphetamine is, how it devastates families and threatens our communities, where it comes from and the public policies we could employ to stop it. She also will discuss the broader consequences of all chemical addictions on our society and offer an agenda for addressing this epidemic.
Gaertner was elected Ramsey County Attorney in 1994 and re-elected in 1998, 2002 and 2006. She is only the fourth person and the first woman to hold the office. She was honored as a 2003 Attorney of the Year by the weekly newspaper "Minnesota Lawyer."
She has made fighting the methamphetamine epidemic one of her top priorities. She chairs a statewide meth task force of county attorneys that has launched several initiatives, including a meth documentary and a meth education Web site.
As county attorney Gaertner has targeted several public safety issues. She established the Joint Domestic Abuse Prosecution Unit in a new partnership with the St. Paul City Attorney's Office. The unit focuses on domestic assault cases where children are present. She also initiated the Truancy Intervention Program (TIP) to address a serious problem with chronic absenteeism in the schools. Now in its 13th year, TIP has contributed to a dramatic increase in school attendance and graduation rates.
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