Committee recommends installing metal detector at Board meeting entrance
After raising concerns about meeting safety at recent contentious sessions, the committee voted to recommend installing and using a metal detector at the entrance to the Board meeting room and forwarded the recommendation to the full Board (approved 3–0).
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County Administrator Ron Brade and staff discussed heightened concerns about attendee behavior at recent contentious meetings and recommended greater physical security measures. The Committee reviewed existing options—positioning of sheriff's deputies, parking‑lot lighting and the County's metal detector previously used when the room served as a courtroom—and concluded a detector at the meeting‑room entrance would increase safety for Board members, staff and the public.
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