VENICE — When former Venice Police Chief Charlie Thorpe made Sgt. Sean Hammett the community outreach manager in 2022, Hammett recalls, he told the former school resource officer to “just go out and be you.”
He became “a social worker with a gun and a badge,” he said.
He met with homeless outreach teams in Sarasota County to see how they were doing things, he said, and they all told him the key to the program’s success is having a case manager…