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Commissioners cite Oregon State Sheriffs Association guidance in ongoing dispute with county sheriff
Summary
A presentation and Q&A with the Oregon State Sheriffs Association (OSSA) executive director underlined commissioners' legal interpretation that county commissioners must be involved in contracts and oversight of sheriff budgets; commissioners said the association's answers align with a county declaratory-judgment action.
Members of the Curry County Board of Commissioners discussed a question-and-answer session with Tim Svensson, executive director of the Oregon State Sheriffs Association (OSSA), that a commissioner attended at Association of Oregon Counties’ County College. The attending commissioner recounted that Svensson said relationships between commissioners and sheriffs are primary and that contracts that bind the county should be reviewed by county counsel and the board.
Svensson, the board reported, told attendees that while sheriffs oversee law enforcement priorities, the county controls…
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