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Sheriff gains authority to contract kennel services, commissioners approve LeadsOnline and ask attorney to draft pawn-shop ordinance
Summary
Commissioners authorized the sheriff to sign a kennel boarding agreement for K-9s, approved a three-year LeadsOnline subscription to help detectives locate stolen property, and directed the county attorney to draft ordinances requiring pawn shops (and potentially cell-phone buyback kiosks) to upload records into LeadsOnline.
Marshall County commissioners on April 21 authorized the sheriff to enter into an agreement with Jaguar Elite Canine Services to house department K-9s and approved a three-year subscription to LeadsOnline, an investigative database detectives said has helped recover stolen property.
Sheriff Matthew Hassinger asked the board to approve a kennel agreement and to let him set fees at the time of service. “If we give the sheriff the authority to establish the fee…that would be sufficient,” an official indicated during discussion. Commissioners approved a motion allowing the sheriff to contract with the kennel and to set the fee at the time of service; the transcript notes a daily rate discussed informally of $50 per day but the agreement delegates fee-setting to the sheriff at time of use.
The board also approved a subscription to LeadsOnline, a commercial database detectives use to locate stolen property sold through pawn shops and online marketplaces. The three-year quote discussed in the meeting lists annual amounts that escalate over the term; speakers read pricing as roughly $3,103 for year one, $3,199.18 for year two and $3,295.16 for year three. The subscription includes a 60-day opt-out provision.
During public remarks, Tammy Hager (former chief deputy prosecutor) urged the county to pair LeadsOnline access with a local ordinance requiring pawn shops to upload pawned items daily into the database. “Every county needs an ordinance passed, to require the pawn shops in the county to upload things that are pawned,” Hager said, explaining that such ordinances have helped detectives in other jurisdictions solve homicides and thefts. Commissioners voted to have the county attorney examine and draft the ordinance language for pawn shops and the related issue of cell-phone buyback kiosks.
Why it matters: county detectives and prosecutors said LeadsOnline materially helps locate stolen goods across jurisdictions and that an accompanying ordinance requiring pawn-shop uploads would increase the tool27s value. The kennel agreement creates a formal arrangement for occasional out-of-town housing of K-9s and their handlers.
Next steps: the county attorney will prepare draft ordinances for pawn-shop uploads and potential cell-phone kiosk reporting; commissioners approved the LeadsOnline contract and the kennel agreement during the meeting.
