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National Night Out is an annual event, held on the first Tuesday in August, to celebrate community, safety and service. Across the nation, neighbors gather to enjoy an evening of good food, music, games, safety demonstrations, visits from various first responder organizations and simply great conversation with friends, old and new.
For 37 years, law enforcement agencies have come together to create an evening under the stars that is filled with fun and games for the entire family. After a challenging year of limited social contact, this is an opportunity to reach out to those who, through it all, continued to serve and protect and did so with pride and a genuine desire to help their friends and neighbors. The uniform they wear represents the value they place upon creating a more caring place to live.
passed last summer as an unfunded mandate, with the exception of $617,478 in highway users tax fund dollars given to the Colorado State Patrol.
The bill sets a deadline of July 1, 2023, for compliance and outlines penalties for agencies and officers who fail to use body cameras after this date.
“We don’t have a choice about doing this,” van Beek told Eagle County Commissioners during a presentation at their June meeting. “We have to go forward with this, and we will do everything we possibly can to control the costs.”
The body camera program is expected to cost about $600,000 over the next five years, a number which does not include the personnel costs associated with managing and reviewing the footage, van Beek said.
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The early arrival of Eagle County’s first large wildfire of the season last week and, with it, Stage 2 fire restrictions has resurfaced an inevitable question: What should happen to those who don’t do their part to prevent fires?
The Eagle County Sheriff’s Office typically takes an education-forward approach to dealing with people who violate the county’s fire mitigation restrictions, but there are a few criminal charges that can be utilized in more extreme cases, Sheriff James van Beek said.
“We wrote the (fire restriction) ordinance in such a way as that it’s more of an education piece … but it gives us a set of teeth should we need it,” van Beek said. “We approach it from the community policing standpoint of we need everyone to do their part because we’re all part of this community and if everyone does their part, then that lowers the risk.”
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