 Hello everyone, it's Bernice here, your community outreach specialist and today I am bringing you a video to talk about my my partner in crime. Another one of my partners and I feel like I've had so many partners in crime. Now I have a group of partners in crime in my office but basically my main partner in crime that's Amanda Hunter who is our community engagement specialist. So we're gonna talk to you a little bit about what she does and her role in our office and I guess a little bit about your hiring process if it's different from Ashley's but let's come on let's just come on. Everyone let's formally introduce Amanda Hunter community engagement specialist. It's different than you. It is a community outreach specialist. Community engagement specialist. There's a difference guys. She's the yin to my yang, the salt to my pepper, the chocolate to my bread, the butter to my bread, the vegan butter to my bread. I just had to throw it in there. I had to throw it in there. But first of all, welcome to our channel. This is this is Amanda's debut. This is I feel like I already said that. My big debut. But okay so break it down for us. Break it down for our fault. Tell them a little bit about yourself. So do you want my background? Yes. Okay. Yeah because it's your job. I'm gonna have Amanda do a five things video with me too because I ask everyone to do one so but this can go in this video. This works yeah. So my background is mostly in public relations and marketing. Work never stops. That was an email that I because you all know I use my phone so notifications pop up on the screen. I got distracted. So my background's in public relations and marketing. I've worked at a couple different places. I've worked in the theme park and entertainment industry. Where'd you just come from? Bush Gardens is where I just came from. You should all know Bush Gardens. Yep. You're local. You definitely know Bush Gardens. You're not a local. Yeah. Is Bush Gardens pretty popular across the nation? Yeah. I feel like a lot of people. A lot of people come from all over to go to Bush Gardens. I met a lot of people from not Florida. I didn't mean to interrupt you. The first time I ever rode a roller coaster because I don't like heights. First time I ever rode it it was the big blue and yellow one in the back but the curve. Yeah. I don't know. You go up and it curves down. And you hang from the top. Yeah. That's my favorite. No. The first time I ever rode there were Germans. Two Germans sitting next to me and they recorded me the whole time because I was screaming bloody. They had a video camera and I was screaming bloody Mary. What were they doing just sitting there? They were on the back of the roller coaster. We were at the very back and they were recording on the ride. Sorry. Great. Thank you. Just what I wanted. I'm just tears streaming down my face. Just what you wanted to commemorate that moment because there's no photos on that one. None. I had walked on. You have the video. I'd walked on sat down and like cooked but fake cooked myself about six times and like run off. And my friend Allen was with me. Do you want to do that or not? He wrote it by himself six times before I did it on the set. Yeah. So I was deathly afraid of roller coasters when I started there. Hated it. Would not get on any roller coasters. And by now you you I've ridden them all. No. And I like them. That fear doesn't just go away. They're still. They're still tall. If you get enough friends before she won them which is what happened to me. You're just like it's whatever. Yeah. Okay. I apologize guys but she came from Bush Gardens and that's really exciting for all of us in the office. Okay but. And then before that I worked in sport. So I worked at a couple different colleges including University of South Florida. USA. Go both. That's where I went to undergrad. So. This is my favorite though. For sure. Okay. So you worked in sports too. So did you do like kind of what I did? Like did you run like social media platforms? No. I actually did in sports. I did all of the in game stuff that's not the actual game being played. So the music you hear the PA announcements like if there's video board graphics I coordinated all of that. That's really cool. Okay. In game entertainment. So if there was like a game being played or something that was me. I like it. Yeah. I got some talent in this office. Different. Would you do at Bush Gardens? So I did mostly partnerships and promotions. So my a large part of my job is working with media partners mostly radio. Okay. Which is super cool. A lot of fun. Got to travel around. Go to a lot of different radio stations. Great jobs that cause you to travel. Yep. And then I worked with partners like Publix and Coca-Cola. We have some special guests. Can you guys hear them? There's no way they can't hear that. It's pretty loud. I thought it was an alarm system when we first walked over here to sit down. It kind of is. That is true. It might be a pet. They're like guard dogs. Yeah we live in Pasco. But guard geese. Guard geese. GG G squared. G squared. The new revolution and home security. That's really cool. So what do you do with how long have you been with us? It's been like a week and a half. Six days since we had the past two off. I love it. And okay. Okay. So hot off the press. Hot off the grill with us. You hit the ground running. Yeah we had a press conference my first day. Yes. I got to jump right in. My, our boss, one of our bosses is gone. You guys know. The other one was, he was in Vegas that weekend. He was out in. In DC? Somewhere. New York. He was somewhere. Not here. And I was still like, I'm drowning. Amanda here. That's great. Okay so you, but that was, you were incredible. You're already incredible. So just tell it, tell the people what, what is your job? So my day today, for the most part I am going to be managing relationships with media. So doing a lot of story pitching, finding out what some of the good stories we have here at the Sheriff's Office are. And pitching those out to media. So instead of letting the media come to us, we're really trying to get those out to them. I love that. Proactively. And then that's part of my job. The other part I share with you is PIO duties, so Public Information Officer duties. And you guys know that we handle press conferences, phone calls, morning snapshots, records requests. Yep. All media questions when the media listens to our scanners. Or they get tips and stuff. Yes. And they like to call you. Yeah. So that's, so you soon, because you're still learning of course. Sure. Basically everything I do media related, I bring Amanda and her offices next to mine. I'm like, come look, we're both yeah, visual learners. And soon you're going to rotate on-call weeks with me. Very soon. Yes. Much cheerleaf. Yes. Much to my relief. Thinking like two weeks on, two weeks off right now. Because our other boss is gone for another, we found it today. I know they're like four to six weeks. Yeah. So that's, that's cool. So what, so far what have you been doing so far in regards to like building our relationships with the media? Sure. So I'm working right now on pitching a story out to some of our local media, both radio and TV for January, which is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Super important story that Pasco's got a lot of resources for and we're trying to kind of spread the word and let people know not only about human trafficking, which is big in Florida, but also a lot of the resources available to victims of human trafficking. It's a great story. Okay, so that's where it comes to. It's, it's the news. Yes. It's, I can only think of a like, Bay News 9. Bay News 13. Yep. Then make that up. Channel 10. Channel 10. I don't watch the news. I feel like I work in it. I don't watch it outside. But all of this, but you said also, so like Tampa Bay Times. Yeah. Newspapers. Newspapers. Radio. Anybody, I think it's a great story to get out there, especially at being Human Trafficking Awareness Month. It's super important. It's a great opportunity for us to talk about it. That's you. So that's a lot of being creative and thinking on your feet. We'll also try to figure out what the media would want to pick up on. In what fit. So sometimes it's not necessarily like a morning story. Daytime TV. Daytime TV. It's a lot of cooking demonstrations and stuff like that. That's different. So maybe, I mean, if you guys have any thoughts, we always love suggestions. Throw them down in the comments below. But you gotta think it's different from what I bring you guys. Yes. This would be more on a larger scale, I feel. It could possibly go national. Right. What do you think that maybe the media would be interested in? Or I keep throwing ideas for what you guys want me to do. Yeah. And then speaking of national, I also manage part of managing my media and relationships with that. I manage relationships with television shows. So, live TV. That is true. PDKM. All those fun shows. Cops. Investigations. Discovery. If we can say it. Yes. We, which is what I've been pulling all of the records and video footage and photographs for that because there are a couple cases that were picked up that they want to be doing for them. They're interesting. A series that they're coming up with. So, that's. So, from time to time, we get those requests. Lately, there's been quite a few. There's was one from London, one from Canada, one from California. This, the Discovery. That's out of New York. That's a lot of paperwork. I just feel bad for all the trees. A lot of printing. Yes. So much printing. So much redacted. A lot of printing. Yeah. But that's really, that's really cool. That's a black marker. So, you're basically, because I mean people might not understand, when you're working with TV shows, like I mean I'm pulling records, but like say like PDKM or whatever. The interviews for that, you're helping to schedule them, set those up. Sitting in on them to make sure, because you never know what could happen. What we're talking about, some of the case information is still sensitive if the case is ongoing. Some of it, we can't really release. So just making sure we're saying the right things. Reporters and that they don't ask or question or probe about that. So that's a lot of our role when it comes into like press conferences and whatnot with the media. Making sure that they stay on topic and do not get off topic or make whoever their. Start asking about cases that are unrelated. Exactly. Making our, the individuals are interviewing flustered or you know anything like that. Trying to catch them off guard. Exactly. Tripping them up. Kind of being the guard dog. Yes. So that's a, you do a lot. You are definitely an asset already to our office. Boom. Happy to help. Like I said, we tag team but two different things. Two, yes. Two different roles. Still very important. Yes. We have two roles each and one role overlaps. Boom. Yes, it's the same. Yeah. Oh, but that is Amanda Hunter, community engagement specialist. It's nice to meet you. Nice to have you. C-E-S-C-O-S. There you go. Maybe one day both of us CEOs. You see hi. That would be nice. Okay, I'm kidding. But thank you for taking some time to talk to us. You guys haven't liked this video already. Like it. There's nothing really to like mention about your hiring process because it was basically the same as Ashley. Yeah. The world civilian. So there's that. But um, yeah. Thanks for having us. Guys, thanks for tuning in. We will see you next time. Bye guys.