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Highway could honor corrections officer killed in line of duty
By Jonathan Avise
A stretch of Minnesota highway would be renamed in honor of a corrections officer killed on duty last year, under a bill passed Thursday in the House.
HF58, sponsored by Rep. Bob Dettmer (R-Forest Lake), would designate a portion of Highway 95 as Corrections Officer Joseph Gomm Memorial Highway.
An inmate attacked and killed Gomm, who had served as a corrections officer for 16 years, at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Stillwater last June.
Passed 129-0, it now goes to the Senate, where Sen. Karin Housley (R-St. Mary’s Point) is the sponsor.
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