CENTRE —  A free seminar sponsored by Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin and Gadsden State Community College will be offered in February and March at Gadsden State Community College in Gadsden. There will be three options available, each designed to meet specific needs.

The first seminar, titled “Safety and Security for Places of Work and Worship,” will be held Thursday, Feb. 28 at Wallace Hall Fine Arts Center on the Wallace Drive Campus in Gadsden from 8 a.m. to noon.

The seminar is designed to help business owners, managers, supervisors, and teams evaluate the big picture of safety and security while developing reasonable and preventative response plans.

A seminar for law enforcement officers will be held on Friday, March 1 at the Administration Building Auditorium on the East Broad Campus from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Officers will receive information needed to make people, places, property, programs, and processes of any place of work and worship more safe and secure. Six CEU credits are available to participants.

The final seminar in the series will be held Saturday, March 2 at the Wallace Hall Fine Arts Center from 8 a.m. to noon. The seminar will focus on safety in places of worship and provide training for church leaders, staff, volunteers, facility managers, and security directors.

In addition to the seminars, Gadsden State Security and the Etowah County Sheriff's Department are partnering to offer firearm safety instruction free to any interested citizen. Instruction will be given with dummy firearms. No personal firearms will be allowed in the sessions.

The sessions will be offered each Tuesday night in February from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Joe Ford Center for Economic Development on the East Broad Campus of Gadsden State.

Pre-registration is required for attendance. Contact Natalie Barton at 256-549-8135 or e-mail nbarton@etowahcounty.org to register or find out more about the classes.