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Clay County commissioners agree to prepare resolution to form jail and justice center study committee
Summary
The commission agreed to place a resolution on a near‑term agenda to form a committee (commissioners, sheriff, prosecutor, facilities, courts, administrator) to assess the county jail and justice center needs; Sheriff Will Aiken described significant infrastructure problems and said a new facility would likely take 7–10 years.
Commissioner Worthington proposed creating a multi‑stakeholder committee to evaluate the Clay County Jail and Justice Center and recommend short‑ and long‑term solutions. The proposed committee would include three commissioners, representatives from the prosecutor’s office, the sheriff’s office, facilities, the courts and the county administrator and would produce findings and recommendations to the full commission within about a year.
Commissioners stressed that…
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