Reno County commissioners approve two forensic workstations and sign MOU to design road serving Evergy plant

Reno County commissioners voted unanimously to approve two separate items during their business session: a consent-agenda purchase of two digital forensic workstations for the Reno County Sheriff’s Office funded by an Attorney General grant, and a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Growth Incorporated that makes the county the grant subrecipient for engineering and design of roughly three miles of road to serve a proposed Evergy plant.

The sheriff’s office told commissioners the upgraded systems are needed to handle much larger phone data transfers and speed forensic processing. “What we're running into is the size of phones now,” said Keatonberger, Reno County Sheriff's Office, describing cases where investigators must move hundreds of gigabytes from a device…