The Clermont County Common Pleas Court Adult Probation Department has received the Clifford Skeen Award, presented by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

The award recognizes the department for operating the “outstanding non-residential community corrections program in the State of Ohio for fiscal year 2009.”

The Clermont program was selected as the Skeen Award Winner from 47 community corrections programs across the state.  Clermont County Common Pleas Administrative Judge William Walker accepted the award during the Ohio Justice Alliance for Community Corrections conference in Columbus on Oct. 1.