Comments on: Commissioners Propose Spending Trust Fund Money On School Resource Officers

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 13:09:32 +0000

No better idea yet. This is a much better idea than arming teachers. There are a lot of desent folks who are teachers. Some are not.

By: J. Turner

J. Turner — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 14:56:31 +0000

I am a former Deputy in Tennessee well versed on seizures. If someone wants caught in possession of a large amount of any Narcotic large enough to be a felony and a large amount of cash the cash was seized. The proof is in the amount of Narcotics possessed. Cops can tell if the amount of narcotic is for personal use or distribution. In possession of 20 grams of cocaine and in possession of $10,000 cash? The money was seized. Its not hard to prove. Good thing some of you do not work in law enforcement as you’d be fired for incompetence.

By: Mike Amerson

Mike Amerson — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 13:23:14 +0000

Compression Issue. Morgan has been in Office since 2008. If he clearly doesn’t have enough sense to have already addressed this, he isn’t. It’s just a crutch when he feels he needs attention. Retention. Has anyone ever thought that maybe people just have no desire to work for Morgan because of his “lack of knowing what he’s doing”? New recruits coming out of the academy start there because they keep so many openings due to the above to help support themselves/family until they get their first offer from another agency and run out, not walk. Even with the School Board paying half of the SRO’s salary as they have for several past years, Morgan decides to prove one of his “interesting points” last year by pulling some of the SRO’s out of the schools because he doesn’t have enough officers on the road to run calls. Now he needs them back in school. People, he has no idea what he’s doing but you keep voting him back into Office. One of his most vocal points prior to being elected in 2008 was just how top heavy the admin’ was there at the Office and how the “Good Ole Boy” system was and always has been normal. Well, if he could provide the names, positions and really important the salaries of the people he’s brought on since being elected in 2008, I think one would find that nothing has changed, just the players. Also take a look at the pay raises since first being elected of his supporters within the Office and see if he’s changed anything. The first person you can look at that he brought with him is David Craig. That should give anyone a good start and then look at all the others since 2008 and see if he may have had any extra money to deal with all of the above. Folks, you can’t even get an escort to your final resting place w/o having to pay for it under this man. He’s a disgrace to the badge and the community. But he brought all that experience with him. It took me a year or two to really see he had no idea what he was doing and hopefully you have too. I know the BOCC is tired of his excuses, rants and attention seeking methods. I feel sorry for all the good employees that still work there and I really feel sorry for the families in Esc’ Co’ that have to worry about whether or not their kids are safe at school while Morgan rides around and looks at himself on billboards. Good luck to all of you and hopefully at some point the Governor will step in and act on the issues there. You all take care and be careful.

By: Grand Locust

Grand Locust — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 04:47:48 +0000

I do not like taking citizen’s property to support a program to make our schools safer. It creates incentives to make more things criminal and expose greater amounts of Citizen’s assets to forfeiture. The Drug war has failed, and the forfeiture laws have really invaded citizen’s fifth amendment protections of property rights. However, as a slush fund exists now, any proposal which eliminates part of that gets my support.

School safety should be funded from sales tax dollars. I think there are some capital projects in addition to arming schools. The armed LEOs failed two weeks ago, but how are doors and windows secured? What video security systems are installed in Florida Schools? Why are visitors or students not screened on entry at least 100 feet from the front door. If folks can just walk in on any door, and there is no perimeter check points which do not necessarily need to be armed, then it sounds like people are wanting to throw money into something which has NOT stopped dangerous people getting into a school.

By: C

Fri, 02 Mar 2018 22:14:08 +0000

They can use some of that money that was earmarked for all the billboards around town with our county’s favorite sheriff on them.

By: Marvin Pawless

Marvin Pawless — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 20:42:38 +0000

http://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-ruling-on-civil-forfeiture-2014-11

Yes The government can take your property without any due process

By: John Q Taxpayer

John Q Taxpayer — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 19:54:10 +0000

Listen up people. Let’s just cut the bull and say what is really at stake. Children’s lives. How much is a child’s life worth to you the taxpayer. Not black, white,hispanic and so on. Just a American child of yours and mine. Priceless. It’s simple we are at war. Not a gun war. A war on the freedom of our children to safely go to school and get an education. Put a tactical trained officers post on every school in our state. Then see how many armed individuals breech the sanctuary of our schools grounds. Soldiers die every day to defend our country. Men and women like them would be honored to defend the future of America from home grown terrorism. I know I would. Attacks would still happen but they would happen less with a lot smaller casualty numbers.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 19:08:51 +0000

REGARDING:
“they are given every opportunity to explain but they can’t, and if you look these people up you will see a long criminal history mostly involving drugs, so let’s don’t pretend it law abiding, tax paying citizens.”

They probably ARE criminals, but the Constitution does require silly things like trials, jurors, evidence, PROOF, conviction. Most of what I have has little value other than as scrap (which probably explains the taking of two old aluminum boats and a wrecked 1979 Datsun B-210 station wagon without my permission — and not by law enforcement) but I would be sore pressed to show I bought most of it since that would require better record keeping that is usually the case.

I can’t prove innocence, somebody SHOULD prove guilt.

David for druggies funding their own fixes
without stealing from others

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 18:56:08 +0000

REGARDING:
“Where is all the revenue generated by the Florida Lottery, that was supposed to benefit education and the school system. That’ s how the lottery was sold to us. ”

For capital projects. Money to build new structures rather than money to maintain existing structures. They pointed that out at the time but lots of folks ignored it.

Later they copied Georgia by setting up Bright Futures, college scholarships for students who applied themselves rather than for dropouts. That was a good idea.

The state also cut educational funding from other sources so enhancement became more of the backbone.
( Psalm 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. — Which is to say, we humans are unreliable.)

There is never plenty of money because there are many who know just where to spend every last penny — ten times over.

Besides, which would you rather have?
A school resource officer in every school?
Or electronic billboards showing our beloved sheriff with a caption under the picture telling you that water safety begins with you — that you’re on your own?

David for money well spent

By: M in Bratt

M in Bratt — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 17:04:57 +0000

Sheriff Hollywood aint gonna like that, it will take away from the money he is spending on all the billboards with his picture on them, and it may even take away from his TV budget