Orange County Sheriff Will Ask Board to Fund Updated Shooting Range
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) on April 13 will ask the Board of Supervisors to fund a major renovation for its shooting range and extend the consulting contract for a company that monitors inmates’ phone calls.
The OCSD is seeking the board’s approval to award a $7 million contract to Archico, a construction company, to upgrade the shooting range at the newly renamed Sandra Hutchens Regional Law Enforcement Training Center.
“The safety of the actual range itself needs to be updated, and then they’re also expanding a little bit to be able to include more realistic scenarios,” Carrie Braun, OCSD’s public information officer, told The Epoch Times.
An Orange County Sheriff’s Department training facility will be renamed after controversial former Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, who died of breast cancer earlier this month.
The Katella Training Facility in Orange will now be known as the Sandra Hutchens Regional Law Enforcement Training Center.
Orange County supervisors voted unanimously to approve the name change after each praised Hutchens for her decade-long term as sheriff.
“She came into the department at a very difficult time,” Supervisor Don Wagner said Tuesday. “She restored honor, not to the badge, not to the department, because the men and women of the department had never lost it under prior leadership, but she did restore it to leadership.”