What makes up this cluster?

• The major employers in public safety are government organizations at the city or county, state, and federal levels.

• First responders such as fire and police departments, share a mission to keep people and property safe, as do the workers who patrol city streets, coastal waters, ski slopes, and swimming beaches.

• Laws guide relationships among people, institutions, and government; workers in the law sector enforce these laws, and sometimes create them.

• Lawyers conduct research, prepare documents, gather testimony, and argue cases before judges or juries. Judges interpret laws and sentence defendants.

• The corrections sector consists of city and county jails, state and federal prisons, community correctional facilities, and juvenile detention centers.