The Sawyer County sheriff's office told the Public Safety Committee that patrol calls increased in May while traffic enforcement and crash totals were reported for the year to date.

Lieutenant Repinski reported that May's calls for service rose to 865, compared with 608 in March and 680 in April. "For May of 25, our deputies issued a total of 45 citations for traffic, 38 written warnings, 11 non traffic citations," Repinski said. He also reported 21 personal-injury crashes in May and a current yearly total of 111 crashes, 18 of them personal-injury, and one fatality.

Repinski said deputies participated in a seat-belt enforcement mobilization May 19 through June 1 and noted seasonal outreach at county festivals and Memorial Day events. He also said two sponsored part-time deputies, Madison Waller and Nick Pompuc, will start the LEO 720 academy in Rice Lake on June 2.

Jail staff reported an average daily population of 55 inmates in May, with 12 females and 43 males. Pre-sentence inmates numbered 19; average probation incarceration and average sentence incarceration were both reported at 18. On the day the report was generated, five inmates were on electronic monitoring and the unemployment rate at time of booking was recorded as 83%.

Committee members asked no substantive follow-up questions during the reports.