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Commission approves sheriff's homeland-security grant application, jail scanner payment and out-of-state travel

2935975 · April 9, 2025
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The Covington County Commission approved a homeland-security grant application for school UTVs, authorized additional jail scanner funds and cleared out-of-state travel for sheriff's investigators and to attend a fallen-officer memorial.

Covington County commissioners voted to allow the sheriff's office to apply for a homeland-security grant that would fund golf carts/UTVs for school resource officers and to approve additional miscellaneous funding for jail scanners, and they approved out-of-state travel requests for sheriff's personnel.

The homeland-security grant is a percentage grant with no local match; commissioners voted to permit the sheriff's department to apply. Commissioner Robbie made the motion and Commissioner…

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