High gas prices aren’t just impacting your budget a sheriff in mid-Michigan made headlines last week when he announced he told deputies to work more calls over the phone to save on gas. We went to work to find out if metro Detroit sheriff’s offices were doing the same.
Isabella County Sheriff Michael Main wrote on his department s Facebook page that, with fuel prices being high and budget running out, "I have instructed the deputies to attempt to manage whatever calls are acceptable over the phone." This garnered a lot of negative attention.