Chief Dominic W. Giudice, Jr., began his 29 year law enforcement career in 1977 when he joined the Washingtonville Police Department moving on to the Blooming Grove Police Department in 1978. In 1981, Giudice joined the Town of Monroe Police Department and has served as Chief since 1990. Prior to beginning his law enforcement career he served in the United States Army, 57th MP Co., USMA, West Point, New York. Chief Giudice currently serves as the 1st Vice President of the Association and has been a distinguished member since 1990. In addition to that role he also serves as Vice-Chairman NYSACOP Police Chief Executive Training Committee; Chairman of the NYSACOP Parole and Correction Committee and is a member of the Contemporary Management Committee, Training Conference Program Committee, and the NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services Liaison Committee. During his term as Chief, Giudice has provided the leadership needed to modernize the department; oversaw the demolition of the old police facility and design and construction of the new police facility to include two flawless moves of all equipment and supplies; supervised the Monroe Police Department's Law Enforcement Accreditation by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services which included revising the department rules, regulations, general orders, procedures and policy manual. Chief Giudice has also successfully developed new programs including Emergency Medical Technician's (EMT's) on patrol, the Child Safety Seat program in conjunction with the New York State Governors Traffic Safety Committee, VIN Etching and Watch your Car, RUOK?, D.A.R.E., bicycle patrols, the REACT Tactical Team and the Citizen Police Academy.

Janice Grieshaber
Executive Director, The Jenna Foundation for Non-Violence
Author of Jenna's Law, named for her daughter who was murdered in Albany, NY in 1997

Janice Grieshaber is the Executive Director of The Jenna Foundation for Non-Violence, located in Syracuse, New York. Named for her daughter, the foundation was established in 1998 following Jenna's 1997 murder in Albany, New York. Janice and her husband, Bruce, fought for and won passage of Jenna's Law in an historic recall session of the New York State Assembly in 1998, just eight months after Jenna's death. The law implemented determinate sentencing, established the Victim Information and Notification Everyday (VINE) program, and increased post-release supervision.

Janice graduated from Cazenovia College with a degree in merchandising, and is a magna cum laude graduate of LeMoyne College. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Cazenovia in 2002. She has been trained in victim advocacy through the National Center for Victims of Crime at the Medical University of South Carolina, and currently serves on the Council for the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision, which manages the movement and supervision of adult felony offenders into and out of New York State following their release from correctional facilities. She serves on several other advisory committees and boards and is a member of the Human Services Leadership Council.

Janice personally oversees a school-based mentoring program, which has grown to include well over a thousand students each year from districts in the Syracuse area, and continues to lobby for victims' rights and improved offender rehabilitative practices on a local and national level. Since 1999 she has been a member of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, a national initiative to establish Pre-K and early intervention programs, and currently serves as one of four co-chairs for the Fight Crime New York office. Janice is a staunch supporter of programs for children and youth as a violence prevention measure, and has been rewarded for her work in this field by seeing positive results in her own community as good programming is implemented. She has received the Jefferson Award, the Post-Standard Achievement Award, the Women in Business Award, received the designation Woman of Distinction in the 50th District of the New York State Senate and been recognized by the Governor, the District Attorney's office of Onondaga County and many others for her work in her community and across the state and nation.

Thomas Beilein
Sheriff, Niagara County

Sheriff Thomas A. Beilein has over 35 years law enforcement experience in. Starting in 1969 as a Deputy Sheriff, he worked Road Patrol and in Corrections until 1976 when he was promoted to Investigator with the Niagara County Drug Task Force and Criminal Investigation Bureau. In 1986, he was promoted to Sr. Investigator and supervised the investigations of criminal activity throughout Niagara County until 1988 when he was promoted to Chief Investigator. In 1990, he was made Inspector and was responsible for the supervision of 40 employees in 4 investigative units; namely, Criminal investigation, Juvenile investigation, narcotic investigation and welfare fraud investigation. He was also responsible for the supervision and grant administration of the Victims Assistance Unit. From 1989 through 1994, he was Director of the Major Crime Strike Force and coordinated investigations of major cases that occurred in Niagara County. The Task Force is a multi-agency investigative unit comprised of personnel from the four major police departments within Niagara County and the District Attorney's Office. In 1994, he was elected Sheriff, and this past November was elected to his fourth term as Sheriff of Niagara County.

Sheriff Beilein has comprehensive and specialized training and experience in all aspects of law enforcement including major case management, criminal investigations, drug investigations, juvenile aid, welfare fraud, victims assistance, domestic violence, correctional management and police administration.

Sheriff Beilein is a member of the New York State Sheriffs' Association, National Sheriff's Association, International Association of Chiefs of Police, American Jail Association and American Correctional Association.