House Resolution 1187 By: Representatives Burchett of the 176th and Corbett of the 174th A RESOLUTION Recognizing and commending Community Supervision Officer Traci Whitaker, the Department of Community Supervision 2025 Officer of the Year; and for other purposes. WHEREAS, founded on the tenets of public safety and progress, the Georgia Department of Community Supervision commenced operations on July 1, 2015, through the passage of House Bill 310; and WHEREAS, Community Supervision Officer Traci Whitaker has honorably served the State of Georgia for eleven years and has shown herself to be an outstanding embodiment of the Department’s core values of selfless service, accountability, integrity, teamwork, and professional development; and WHEREAS, Officer Whitaker routinely goes above and beyond to provide efficient, effective, selfless, and dedicated service to her coworkers and the State of Georgia; and WHEREAS, Officer Whitaker's commitment to public safety while helping create opportunities for successful outcomes for the individuals she supervises serves as an example for her fellow officers; and WHEREAS, it is abundantly fitting and proper that the outstanding accomplishments of this remarkable and distinguished Georgian be appropriately recognized. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the members of this body recognize and commend Community Supervision Officer Traci Whitaker on being named the Department of Community Supervision’s 2025 Officer of the Year. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed to make an appropriate copy of this resolution available for distribution to Community Supervision Officer Traci Whitaker.