Heather Baltz

Heather Baltz has an extensive and varied experience when it comes to sexual safety compliance and investigation over a 25-year professional career. Heather was a criminal investigator with the Metro Nashville Police Department for 15 years before moving into corrections and becoming a PREA Coordinator for a national company. She managed over 60 facilities nationwide and had over 120 PREA Compliance Managers and Investigators who depended on her as an SME for PREA guidance. She has been a certified PREA auditor since 2023 and has participated in the PREA audit process since 2016. Heather has experience working with jails, prisons, detention centers (DHS/ICE), and Community Confinement facilities of all sizes and stages of PREA implementation.
Heather is passionate about sexual safety and making correctional environments safer places to live and work. She is now an active auditor and loves to conduct training and TTA.