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Thursday, September 07, 2006
Ind. Courts - Whitley County receives grant for courthouse security
The Columbia Couty Post & Mail reports in a story today by T.J. Hemlinger:
Whitley County has received a $50,000 grant to enhance its courthouse security from the state’s Division of State Court Administration, Cathy Broxon-Ball told the county commissioners Tuesday afternoon.Broxon-Ball, head of the county’s emergency management, said the money would be used to purchase new digital cameras used to survey the hallways and entrances to the courthouse and the county government center and to change the alarm system so that alarms would be routed to the dispatch center in the basement of the jail.
The money also would go to buy a new x-ray machine for security use in the courthouse entrance. * * *
Commissioners Tom Rethlake, Jim Pettigrew and Doug Eber voted to spend approximately $10,000 for new furniture for the circuit courtroom. The bench, the jury box, the lectern and the tables are to be replaced at a cost of $19,385. About half the money will come from the court’s budget, with assistance from the county prosecutor’s budget, Judge James Heuer told the commissioners.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 7, 2006 04:16 PM
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