Lake County Commissioners are looking to embark on a nearly $24 million bond issue for the final financing component of the planned $90-plus million Calumet Township Septic Tank Elimination Project. During its workshop, the body asked the Lake County Council Thursday to add the request to Tuesday’s regular council agenda for a first reading. Doug Baldessari, an accountant with Baker Tilly, .
The Lake County Sheriff s Department is preparing to add 17 fixed-site crime monitoring cameras to its already operating network of license plate reader cameras.
The Lake County Sheriff s Department is getting close to launching a "real-time operations center" focused on identifying and responding to school safety incidents.
CROWN POINT â Lake County officially is in the running for one of the High Tech Crime Units set to be deployed across the Hoosier State beginning in January.
On Thursday, the Lake County Council unanimously agreed to give Prosecutor Bernard Carter the go-ahead to apply for a $600,000, two-year grant to establish and operate a High Tech Crime Unit serving at least the 24 police agencies in Lake County, and perhaps all of Northwest Indiana.
Carter said he s confident the Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council will see fit to award one of the 10 expected High Tech Crime units to Lake County, and he believes Porter County has a good shot of getting one of its own to serve several adjacent counties to the east.