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Sheriff presents 2024 year-end report, highlights staffing, equipment and program activity
Summary
Sheriff Schutte briefed the committee on 2024 staffing changes, equipment purchases, community programs, major incidents and corrections statistics; the committee received the report unanimously.
Sheriff Schutte presented the Jackson County Sheriff's Office 2024 year-end report, outlining staffing changes, equipment purchases, community outreach and major incidents. The committee voted to receive the report unanimously.
Schutte said the department added seven road patrol deputies, three corrections deputies and two casual deputies in 2024. He said six of the seven road deputies were trained through the department’s own police academy and noted one new hire (Tom Brower) was a recently retired officer who did not require internal academy training. Schutte described training and equipment updates that included an outdoor shooting range used for qualifications and the purchase of “e-gloves” for selected jail staff; he said each pair costs about $4,000 and are used by select personnel during…
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