INFORMATION just in case you would like to know.

With everything we have gone through for the past ten months or so here at the Sheriff's Office, I want to remind the public, we have no patrol deputies at this time. My patrol division was defunded last budget down to three positions. We have had to shift those patrol deputies to work the jail because of resignations in the jail and the jail is a mandated function. There is only a couple of us including myself that respond to priority calls for now. We are working hard to fill vacancies in the jail so we can move our three patrol deputies back to the road.

To get to one of the reasons for this post, there is a citizens group that has put together a five-year law enforcement levy that will be on this May's ballot, asking to fund my patrol division and our dispatch, with some funding included for Marine and Search and Rescue. The funds that this levy would raise would be restricted for these purposes and could not be used for any other reason. More information will be available very soon, promoted by the Curry citizens for law enforcement group. I want to let you all know that I fully support the levy as we need to start rebuilding so we can provide public safety to our citizens. I am asking for your support, help us help you.

The other reason for this post is that the general public probably has no idea of everything the BOC has thrown at us these past ten months or so. If you recall or kept informed, you will know what I am talking about and what we have been put through. The latest thing is the BOC and their county counsel have approved selling four of our patrol cars to the Brookings Police Department. Check out the BOC meeting held yesterday at 2pm, just over nineteen minutes in. This was all done without a conversation with me or even one word, no communication. They even demanded that I turn over all duplicate spare keys to all our vehicles. It sounds insane, but that is what is going on. If we can pass the levy for public safety, we are going to need our patrol cars for the deputies we will hire. The county cannot afford to buy more cars and have them outfitted. The cars we have were all paid for out our past approved budgets, and they are under our control. This is just one of many things that we have had to deal with, and there is no excuse. If I were to go over everything that we have had to deal with, this would be a record long post. Never would I have imagined that we would be in this position.

I want to thank you all for your continued support., please vote this May to fund public safety.

I remain your Sheriff.

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