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Local law enforcement, residents react to Criminal Justice Reform signing
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Some local law enforcers have been fighting this bill from the beginning.
Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Bullard told News 3 he was not surprised by the governor signing the bill, but he is still holding out hope that there are some aspects of the bill that can be changed.
While law enforcement say they are not opposed to reform itself, it is the language the law is presented in as well as the hoops officers must now jump through in order to properly do their jobs.
Now, Sheriff Bullard is worried these new rules will make officers jobs harder, as well as less effective.
Jefferson County courthouse to be renovated this summer
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JEFFERSON COUNTY (WSIL) Plans are underway for improvements to the Jefferson County Courthouse. Officials have received a $200,000 grant to renovate the aging building.
The Jefferson County Courthouse will begin some new improvements this summer for its infrastructure. Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Bullard says before Covid-19, senate districts were awarded capital grants that each senator could give to different government entities.
He approached then-Senator Paul Schimpf, to be considered to repair the courthouse. Bullard says its about 80-years-old and at least once a year, the elevator fails its inspection.
Repairs will also go to space in the jail attached to the courthouse to assist the needs of the Emergency Management Agency headquarters of Jefferson County, as well as the basement of the courthouse after the state s attorney s office made a request to improve the space for a new