Crime and Overtime

The county sheriff curbs costs

by James Leonard

posted 1/9/2011

When Jerry Clayton became the new county sheriff two years ago, the board of commissioners told him to cut the department's $38 million budget by half a million dollars in his first year in office. That seemed like a lot to ask--under his predecessor, Dan Minzey, spending rose by an average of $1.4 million a year.

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