How do you raise starting pay to entice new employees without leaving veteran employees in the lurch?
That was a key topic addressed by leaders of the Washington County Sheriffâs Office and members of the countyâs Budget Committee during a frank discussion last week on employee hiring and pay issues.
Sheriff Ed Graybeal told committee members that while his office is among the best-equipped in the state, he is struggling to hire qualified deputies and jailers. That includes unfilled positions for school resource officers.
The sheriff said a number of young people today are more interested in âgetting that dollar bill,â meaning a job with a generous starting salary, rather than going to work in a job with a starting pay at $14.81 an hour with benefits.
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TLC viewers have created and signed a Change.org petition to try and get all Duggar content such as Counting On canceled and pulled from the channel and its streaming services after Josh Duggar, 33, was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography on April 29.
As of Thursday, almost 7,000 people have signed the online petition. The Duggar family should no longer have a platform, the petition reads. This family should no longer be allowed to collect money from streaming services and television series. Enough is enough. Too many people have been harmed.
Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar responded to Homeland Security raid report in 2019, called it ‘fake news’
Thu May 06, 2021 at 2:43pm ET
Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar called the 2019 raid “fake news.” Pic credit: TLC
As the Josh Duggar child pornography case begins to play out and more information becomes available, critics and followers remember the statement released by Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar in November 2019.
Back then, reports of a raid by Homeland Security were circulating, but details weren’t clear. In fact, shortly after it was made public, everything seemingly disappeared from the spotlight.
Initially, there was a lot of speculation as to what the raid couple possibly be about. It involved the car lot Jim Bob Duggar had Josh Duggar running, and following the news of the raid, the lot was shuttered and closed for good. Several of the Duggar boys worked there, including Joseph and Josiah Duggar.
The eldest of the 19 children on the canceled TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting,” Duggar will be released Thursday from the Washington County Detention Center.
This photo provided by the Washington County (Ark.) Jail shows Joshua Duggar. (Washington County Arkansas Jail via AP)
(CN) A federal judge on Wednesday granted former reality TV star Josh Duggar’s release from custody following his arrest last week on child pornography charges, calling the decision “a very close call” that includes a number of restrictions to ensure his compliance.
“I’m going to find that the United States has not presented clear and convincing evidence that no release condition or set of conditions would reasonably assure the safety of the community,” said Chief Magistrate Judge Christy Comstock after a four-hour virtual detention hearing.
Meet the clean-cut Christian couple Josh Duggar will live with as court bars him from returning home to his pregnant wife and six kids while he awaits child porn trial
19 Kids and Counting star Josh Duggar will be released from jail today to live with designated third-party custodians
LaCount Reber and his wife Maria, who are close friends of the Duggar family, have agreed to take in Josh at their home in Lafayette, Arkansas
Josh has been barred from returning home to his pregnant wife and their six kids
LaCount, 49, is an MRI tech with the US Department of Veterans Affairs and was previously a volunteer chaplain at the Washington County Detention Center