Roll of Honor
Incident
Corrections Officer Dan Oaks died after contracting COVID-19 during an outbreak among staff and inmates at the Yakima County Jail.
Officer Oaks had served with the Yakima County Department of Corrections for 15 years.
COVID-19 and Law Enforcement
Corrections Officer Daniel Glenn Oaks died on August 1, 2020 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 58.
He is one of 884 officers honored here.
Beginning in early 2020, law enforcement officers across the country contracted COVID-19 in the course of their duties. While much of the nation sheltered at home, they kept answering calls, making arrests, transporting prisoners, and working face to face with the public. There was no distance to be had from the job.
Corrections officers were hit hardest. Confined facilities and large populations meant constant, close, unavoidable exposure.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife and two children.
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Tributes
The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Corrections Officer Oaks gave the Yakima County Department of Corrections 15 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of Washington. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Corrections Officer Oaks.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Corrections Officer Daniel Glenn Oaks is one of 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In WA, 19 of 339 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 5.6% of this state's fallen. That is 3.5 percentage points below the national rate of 9.1%.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Daniel Glenn Oaks's cause is highlighted.
How Daniel Glenn Oaks Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Daniel Glenn Oaks is highlighted in Aug.