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July 13, 2021
STATE OF MICHIGAN –‘We Are Hiring’ is a sign you see at almost every intersection and every business window.
That’s no exception for sheriffs’ offices and jails around the state. For them, it’s been an ongoing issue for the past several years.
“We have had the issue here as well, just like everybody in the state,” says Sheriff Trent Taylor of Wexford County. “We are currently six corrections officers short in the jail.”
With a shortage in staff there is an increase in overtime for those currently working. Longer hours during the week can result in exhaustion – mentally and physically. Even Lake County Sheriff Rich Martin has been working Saturdays to make up the difference.
Michigan county sheriff coordinated with Trump advisors to try and seize voting machines
In email messages obtained by
Bridge Michigan through the Freedom of Information Act, Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf tried late last year to enlist other county sheriffs in an illegal and unsuccessful bid to “investigate all acts of voter fraud” by seizing and inspecting voting machines manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems of Denver, Colorado.
Sheriff Dar Leaf [Source: Michigan’s Sherrif Association]
Bridge Michigan said that the “trove of emails” indicates that “Trump had at least some law enforcement support in his bid to overturn the 2020 election won by Democratic President Joe Biden.” Among the top-level Trump contacts involved in the communications from Leaf were a liaison for former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and White House attorney Sidney Powell, who was leading bogus legal filings alleging election fraud by Democrats across the country.