Tracy is a Senior Program Associate with the PREA Resource Center, working as faculty in the Field Training Program (FTP). Prior to her role in the FTP, Tracy worked 23 years at the Travis County Sheriff’s Office in Austin, Texas, mainly for the Corrections Bureau. Tracy was paramount in the Sheriff’s Office’s implementation and certification of the PREA Standards in 2016 and served as the PREA Compliance Manager for the agency’s Del Valle facility which housed over 2,600 incarcerated people.
The PRC’s FTP was part of Tracy’s journey to PREA Auditor Certification and helping her agency obtain PREA Compliance. The knowledge, professionalism, and genuine dedication to sexual safety Tracy witnessed from the PRC staff during her agency’s hosting of the FTP was predominant in Tracy deciding to join the PRC team in 2023.
Tracy’s experience in the sheriff’s office included policy development, contract negotiations/approvals and implementation, capital budgeting, investigations, and compliance oversight for the office’s programs for PREA, the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, and FBI/Texas Criminal Justice Information Systems. Tracy also owned and operated a private PREA auditing and consulting business as well as a ranching business for her hay and cattle farm in Texas. Tracy holds a bachelor’s of science degree in Biology from Texas State University.