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Broadwater County meeting addresses keypad access after commissioners entered other offices
Summary
County officials on Jan. 7 discussed new keypad door access after commissioners used their codes to enter other elected-official offices; the elections administrator warned of legal and security risks, and the group agreed to draft written access policies and tighten maintenance procedures.
Speaker 3 (identified in the transcript only by the speaker label) opened a Jan. 7 Broadwater County meeting to address recent changes to office door keypads, saying the meeting’s goal was a constructive discussion after a commissioner used a code to enter the treasurer’s office and ‘‘I am sorry that my actions have caused a stir.’’
Why it matters: the conversation centered on elections-office security and personally identifiable information held in certain offices, where commissioners’ ability to enter with a code raised concerns about ballot integrity, after-hours access and compliance with statutes cited in the meeting. Staff described layered protections in the elections office—vaults, locked inner doors, cameras and locked cabinets—that they say make unrestricted after-hours access risky.
At the meeting, several elected officials and department heads disagreed over how the keypad rollout was communicated. Speakers who supported the…
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