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Sheriff's contract hours, July stats and non-human remains reported to Dunsmuir council
Summary
Sheriff's office told the council its contracted hours totaled 6,739 to date (reported as 128% of contracted hours), with July showing 383 hours, 187 calls for service, 11 cases and 8 arrests; an item of suspected human remains at Botanical Gardens Park was sent to DOJ and preliminarily judged not human.
A representative of the contracted sheriff's service reported workload and incident metrics for the contract period and July during the Aug. 22 Dunsmuir council meeting. The presenter said contracted hours to date stand at 6,739 — reported as approximately 128% of contracted hours — and that July recorded 383 hours, 187 calls for service, 11 cases and 8 arrests (4 misdemeanor and 4 felony arrests).
The presenter also described a recent report of suspected human remains at Botanical Gardens Park that forensic staff judged unlikely to be human; samples were sent to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for further analysis. Councilmembers questioned the hour calculation methodology and asked staff to verify whether the contract period and reset date aligned with the statistics presented.
Council requested clarification of the stats and the presenter agreed to check logs and confirm the accounting method for contracted-hour calculations. No policy changes or additional enforcement directives were made at the meeting.
