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Committee hears sheriff’s requests for mobile booking and tasers, funding for in‑jail music therapy and safe‑storage gun programs
Summary
The sheriff’s office requested $2.7 million for mobile booking, courthouse security and tasers; the committee also considered $15,000 for a songwriting therapy program in detention centers and $50,000 to restore a safe‑gun‑storage program.
Council Member Webb presented a sheriff’s office budget modification request totaling $2.7 million for mobile booking, courthouse security and tasers. Officer Aaron Craft spoke to the committee, saying that non‑lethal options such as tasers provide law enforcement alternatives "than just a gun" during split‑second decisions. Committee members clarified that weapons are not carried inside the jail…
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