The Sheriff Thing, A few facts | Beaufort County Now
, The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners, by a vote of seven to zero at the January 4 th 2021 meeting, set up a study committee of three commissioners to evaluate changing the enforcing of criminal laws from the sheriff to a county wide police force. Municipal police departments would not be affected. The three commissioners are: Stan Deatherage, Randy Walker and Hood Richardson. This article is written with the goal of sticking to the facts. We have plenty of opinions about the “politics of law enforcement” in Beaufort County. We will bring them out later in opinio...