The law, public safety, corrections, and security career cluster is all about protecting and serving the public. People working in this sector deal with protecting life and property, enforcing laws, providing legal counsel, sentencing defendants, and rehabilitating offenders.

High school diploma

• Animal control workers

• Crossing guards and flaggers

• Customs and border protection officers

• Forest fire inspectors and prevention specialists

• Lifeguards, ski patrol and other recreational protective service workers

• Police and sheriff’s patrol officers

• Private detectives and investigators

• Public safety telecommunicators

• Security guards

Short term training

• Court reporters and simultaneous captioners

• Emergency medical technicians

• Fire inspectors and investigators

• Firefighters

• Paralegals and legal assistants

Bachelors or graduate degree

• Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators

• Forensic science technicians

• Judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates

• Judicial law clerks

• Lawyers

• Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists