{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mrvan.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mrvan-joins-porter-county-sheriffs-office-ride-along", "Rep. Mrvan Joins Porter County Sheriff\u2019s Office for Ride-Along", "2022-02-25", "2022", "2022-02", "Democrat", "House", "IN", "Frank J. Mrvan", "M001214", "mrvan.house.gov", "mrvan", "https://mrvan.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Merrillville, IN \u2013 Today,Rep. Frank J. Mrvan (IN-01) was pleased to join the Porter County Sheriff\u2019s Office for a ride-along throughout Northwest Indiana.\n\nMrvan has been vocal about his support for local law enforcement agencies, and today he was able to see some of the challenges that the Porter County Sheriff\u2019s Office face on a daily basis. During their ride-along, Rep. Mrvan learned about key issues impacting public safety with officers, including the increasing amount of opioid overdoses and deaths in the community and the need to have more fulsome mental health care services to access for individuals in distress.\n\n\u201cLast week, we were honored to have Congressman Mrvan attend our Regional Drug Unit Meeting, which was held at the Porter County Sheriff\u2019s Office. This meeting was attended by 90 Officers from 7 counties and highlighted the importance of HIDTA, the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Federal program,\u201d said Sheriff Reynolds. \u201cNow we are honored to have the Congressman ride along with one of our Patrol Officers to get firsthand exposure of the Patrol Division at the Sheriff\u2019s Office, and to see the level of the professionalism of our state of the art equipment that is being used to keep our community safe, which I am very proud of.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe work that our local law enforcement agencies do to keep our communities safe is crucial,\u201d said Rep. Mrvan. \u201cThat\u2019s why I have been an advocate for both community investments and police funding. We must enact meaningful changes in our community that stand up against acts of violence while giving law enforcement the tools and resources they need to do their jobs effectively. I saw for myself how Porter County can do both successfully.\u201d\n\nRep. Mrvan is a proud member of the Congressional Law Enforcement Caucus.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:57:46Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://mrvan.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mrvan-joins-porter-county-sheriffs-office-ride-along"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5255059115588665, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}