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Commissioners ask sheriff to explain law-enforcement fund after unbudgeted inmate-housing receipts surface

5837609 · September 24, 2025
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County commissioners said they found inmate-housing and related reimbursements not reflected in earlier budget drafts and will require the sheriff and his finance adviser to appear at the next meeting to explain the fund's accounting and legal status.

Bourbon County commissioners asked the sheriff and the sheriff's financial adviser to appear at the board's next meeting after staff discovered several hundred thousand dollars in inmate-housing receivables that were not included in earlier budget drafts.

County staff briefed the board that the sheriff's office has brought in substantial housing and related reimbursement revenue this year;…

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