EEOC training at sheriff's department

A reader has sent me the following message: "The EEOC out of Chicago is at MCSO conducting a mandatory seminar for all MCSO employees. Only MCSO employees are required to attend. The only time the EEOC demands such a thing is when the department in question has raised some eyebrows in the Federal Government." (The reader sent the information as a Comment, but I'm publishing it this way to avoid showing name, which might endear him to the Department.)


MCSO is, for those who can't guess, the McHenry County Sheriff's Office, a/k/a McHenry County Sheriff's Department. I always wondered why two names are used for what is most likely the same organization.


Even on the website at www.mchenrysheriff.org the two names are used on the same page. In the center of the page appears "The mission of the McHenry County Sheriff's Office is to serve the citizens of McHenry County in a professional and courteous manner, while also protecting the rights of those within its jurisdiction to be free from criminal attack; to be secure in their possessions and to live in peace."

And at the bottom of the page are the address and phone number for the McHenry County Sheriff's Department.

Is this the "mandatory seminar" two-day seminar, required of all employees, that I believe I heard EEO officer Don Leist tell the Merit Commission about on May 9? Is it a seminar or training that has been mandated by the Feds? Or is it a training not mandated by the Feds, but desired by the Department (or is it the Office)?

On the slideshow of pictures, there is even a badge with the word "Police" on it, on top of handcuffs. They didn't even use the official badge of the McHenry County Sheriff's Department in the photo.

More information about the EEOC seminar will be published as it is received.