Liberty Lions Club
Jocelyn Diaz, Montserrat Becerra, Eduardo Mata, and Terry Higginbotham were guest speakers and congratulated on their service to the community at a recent Liberty Lions Club meeting. The Vindicator | Geovanni De Hoyos
The Liberty Lions Club invited representatives from the Liberty High School Law and Correctional program to speak at their past meeting.
Terry Higginbotham, one of the instructors of the program, was a former officer and then decided to become a teacher at Liberty High School. “After I retired, I decided to play golf for a year and then realized I wasn’t good,” Higginbotham said. “My wife said I needed a job, and so I decided to work for Liberty and met with several teachers who wanted to start a law enforcement program.”
Higginbotham explained that the program is designed to ensure his students have a job when they leave high school. The Department of Justice informed him that since the high school program is over four years, the students would not have to take the test to become correctional officers at one of the Texas facilities.
Liberty County Sheriff Bobby Radar also stressed to Higginbotham that the kids from the Law and Correctional program would be offered a job if they chose to accept.
Students of the Law and Correctional program, Jocelyn Diaz, Montserrat Becerra, and Eduardo Mata, also spoke during the Lions Club meeting and were congratulated on their abundance of service hours towards the Liberty County community.