Close Menu
The Village Reporter
  • Home
  • Subscribe
  • Current Edition
  • Store Locations
  • Photo Albums
  • Rate Card
  • Classifieds
  • Submit News
Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram
Saturday, August 30
Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram
Login
The Village Reporter
  • Home
  • Subscribe
  • Current Edition
  • Store Locations
  • Photo Albums
  • Rate Card
  • Classifieds
  • Submit News
The Village Reporter
News

Williams County Establishes New County Wide Attendance Officer

By Newspaper StaffAugust 29, 2021Updated:January 19, 2022No Comments3 Mins Read
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr WhatsApp VKontakte Email
Share
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email

ATTENDANCE OFFICER … Attendance Officer Gale Horn starts his new position as County Attendance Officer.


By: Jacob Kessler

The Williams County Common Pleas Court (Juvenile Division) and all school districts in the county have worked together to create a new county wide attendance officer position for the 2021-2022 school year.

The court and school districts choose to hire Gale Horn for this position. Mr. Horn is a retired officer from the Ohio State Highway Patrol and has been working as a truancy officer for the past 2 years at Edon and Edgerton.

“Edon got ahold of me when I retired from the Highway Patrol and Edgerton is contracted with Edon, so I provided service to both schools.”


“The judge was seeing how I took care of the schools and asked if I would be interested in doing all 7 and I was,” said Mr. Horn.

Mr. Horn began his duties in August of 2021 for the new position and will be monitoring and assisting the students in all of the county’s districts.

He will work with personnel at the school as well as the students and their families to in order to address attendance issues early. “Hopefully we can bring the numbers down. There has been an issue for a while now but hopefully we can get it under control,” said Mr. horn.


Judge Gallagher was instrumental in the whole process and stated, “school attendance programs have to be designed to encourage and foster collaboration among the schools, families and courts.

A student’s educational success or lack thereof certainly impacts the community in which the student lives. This is why we all have to work together to have an end result of educated youth which serves to build stronger families and communities.”

The whole goal for Mr. Horn and Judge Gallagher is stop prevent truancy before it becomes a problem. Currently, the penalty for children under the age of 18 is 10 days in the Juvenile Detention Center and the penalty for the parents and or guardians is 3 days to 6 months in CCNO and the possibility of a $1,000 dollar fine.


The plan according to Mr. Horn is to not let it get this far. “This is the last resort, and we don’t want it to get that far. These types of punishments are more for habitual issues.”

“I am straight forward with people, and I let them know that if it gets that far this is what is waiting. But no one wants it to come to that and there are many things we can do to help people so that this isn’t an issue,” said Mr. Horn.

Jacob can be reached at jacob@thevillagereporter.com


Share. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr WhatsApp Email
Previous ArticleFulton County Commissioners Receive Bids For Myers Ditch
Next Article Ohio Congressman Bob Latta Releases Statement On Death Of Ohio Navy Corpsman Maxton “Max” Soviak
Newspaper Staff
  • Facebook

Related Posts

Bryan Eagles Make Donation To Lily Creek Farms

August 30, 2025

Fulton County Resident Joins Ohio’s “Saved By The Belt” Club

August 30, 2025

Bryan Rotary Hears From WQCT’s Jim Funderburg On Media & Truth

August 29, 2025

NBEC/NWOCA Receives LSTA Grant To Preserve & Repair Books

August 28, 2025
Leave A Reply Cancel Reply

Account
  • Login
Historic County Tributes
Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram Pinterest
  • Home
  • Subscribe
  • Current Edition
  • Store Locations
  • Photo Albums
  • Rate Card
  • Classifieds
  • Submit News
© 2025 ThemeSphere. Designed by ThemeSphere.

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.

Sign In or Register

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below.

Lost password?