Law enforcement teams up to help provide summer reading program

Law enforcement officers from the Columbus Police Department and Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department have teamed up with JDAI (Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative) and Viewpoint Books to assist with a summer reading program.

Starting Wednesday, students and their families who have received books from JDAI will be able to go online and read along with law enforcement officers who were video recorded reading select chapters from the books.

A link to the videos will be shared every Wednesday morning on CPD and BCSO social media pages. So far, JDAI and Viewpoint Books have distributed more than 70 sets of books from the Trouble at Table 5 book series to families in the community.

As the summer continues, we will send out links to additional videos where the officers have personally selected books that they wanted to read to the youth of our community.

Two books selected by officers will also be read in Spanish.

For more on this story, see Wednesday’s Republic.