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Collin County judge backs sheriff’s plan to swap four unfilled detention-officer slots for five records positions
Summary
After Sheriff Skinner warned that budget cuts left the sheriff’s office unable to sustain warrant-entry and records work, Collin County Commissioners voted 5–0 to eliminate four unfilled detention-officer positions and use the funding to restore five records positions needed to process warrants and statutorily mandated records work.
Judge Hill and county commissioners approved a midyear budget reallocation after Collin County Sheriff Skinner told the court his office lacks the personnel to continue the current warrant-entry and confirmation workload.
Skinner said the sheriff’s office is still managing roughly 10,000 outstanding warrants countywide, with about 1,000 of them at felony 1–2 level. He described the impact of summer budget cuts that removed 22 positions from his department and said those reductions left records and detention units short-staffed.
"We currently still have 10,000 outstanding warrants," Sheriff Skinner…
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