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Commissioners deny county facility use for planned ‘wet’ field-sobriety training; sheriff’s office expressed safety and oversight concerns
Summary
The board voted to deny a request from the City of Wagoner Police Department to use county facilities for a training that would involve volunteers consuming alcohol for field-sobriety instruction; the sheriff and commissioners cited liability, logistics and alternative training methods.
Wagoner County commissioners on Jan. 13 voted unanimously to deny a request to use county facilities for a field-sobriety training program in which volunteers would consume alcohol on county property to simulate impaired driving for instruction.
The item arose when county staff said the City of Wagoner Police Department sought use of…
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