Washtenaw County and Ann Arbor will consolidate emergency responder dispatch services this July - but that's six months behind the targeted start date set during budgeting. Now the county is paying toward an agreement that was anticipated to bring in revenue.
Gov. Rick Snyder laid out plans to improve public safety in Detroit, Pontiac, Saginaw and Flint Wednesday, but questions remain from the sheriff about what the state will do to help Washtenaw County police agencies.Washtenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton Washtenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton said after the speech that he ...
New details of a proposal to consolidate the city of Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County 911 dispatch services surfaced Monday night. The merger would mean the loss of five full-time dispatch positions, but 10 part-time "call-taker" positions would be created, Police Chief Barnett Jones told members of the Ann Arbor ...
Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County officials have announced a breakthrough in talks they hope will lead to further cooperation on local dispatch services — and a good faith demonstration to the state they're taking the governor's call for consolidation seriously. After nearly two decades and countless attempts by previous administrations, ...
As Washtenaw County grapples with a $20.9 million structural deficit over the next two years after already cutting $30 million, Sheriff Jerry Clayton says general fund money that historically has supported public safety is becoming increasingly limited.
Recapping his first year in office, Washtenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton detailed a nearly $2 million turnaround in the sheriff's department - a combination of nearly $1 million in reduced operating expenses and $1 million in enhanced revenue.Clayton gave a "state of the office" presentation Wednesday night to the Washtenaw ...
Washtenaw County sheriff’s deputies have recently conducted “warrantless searches and seizures” at The Party Store in Superior Township while claiming they were part of liquor inspections, the store’s attorney alleges. Attorney Jeffrey Lance Abood mailed a letter Tuesday to Sheriff Jerry Clayton and other officials to inform them of what ...
The Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners may decide Monday whether to allow Ypsilanti Township to alter its police services contract and reduce the number of deputies from 38 to 31. Following a failed police millage proposal last month, township officials said they'd likely drop the township's police force by 10 ...
One issue that emerged at Thursday night's forum on jail issues in Washtenaw County was the admittedly imperfect system for releasing inmates back into society. Often times, inmates are let out of the jail on Hogback Road, near the intersection of Washtenaw Avenue, at midnight with no one there to ...
Washtenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton spoke candidly Thursday night of the challenges facing the county's jail. Of the 7,901 people detained at the facility at 2201 Hogback Road last year, he said: 75 percent had substance abuse problems. 63 percent were unemployed. 36 percent had no high school diploma. 27 ...
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