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Courageous Citizen Awards

The District Attorney's Courageous Citizen Award was created to commend those individuals who have acted with courage and at considerable personal risk to help a victim of crime, assist in the capture of a suspect or testify in the face of extraordinary pressures.

Courageous Citizen Awards are presented at regional luncheons hosted by local Rotary and Kiwanis clubs. These organizations join the District Attorney in honoring these citizens because the award recipients exemplify the highest form of community service. It is our hope that this kind of public recognition, in a world where heroes are often hard to come by, will have a far-reaching impact on our community -- and particularly on our young people.

The courage to take action in the cause of justice, without regard to personal consequences, was referred to by John F. Kennedy as "the basis of all human morality."

That action -- dictated by conscience or spurred by a keenly felt perception of wrong -- separates those who turn away from those who make that split-second decision to get involved, to save a life, to catch a thief. It is for those individuals who take the latter course that the District Attorney's Courageous Citizen Award was created.

If you would like to read some true stories of remarkable men, women and children who have won the District Attorney's Courageous Citizen Award, click here.