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ALABAMA SHERIFF'S spent more than $20,000 on 24,000 rolls of toilet paper, and $9,000 on 450 cases of trash bags.

Rickey Stokes

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Date: Jun 12 2019 5:30 PM

How Alabama sheriffs who lost reelection made life harder for their successors



MARSHALL COUNTY ALABAMA:    Sims said five work smartphones used by Walls and his top brass had holes drilled through them, and that the hard drives had been removed from his and his chief deputy’s computers. Records show that in the final months of Walls’ term, the sheriff’s office also spent more than $20,000 on 24,000 rolls of toilet paper, and $9,000 on 450 cases of trash bags.



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SO...thinking out loud... could a County Commissioner stop this? 


Well...if you are a County Commissioner and a Deputy, I guess you could not...


Because a Deputy is an at will employee strictly at the discretion of a Sheriff


Oh well...they just spent OPM - "other people's money".



Last year, 10 Alabama sheriffs lost their reelection campaigns. Afterward, nine of them took steps that their successors say negatively affected their ability to perform their new jobs.


Some of the new sheriffs, who took office on Jan. 14, accused their predecessors of pocketing sheriff’s office funds or purchasing thousands of dollars of items the new sheriffs described as wasteful or unnecessary. Other outgoing sheriffs took steps that their successors described as petty, like refusing to communicate for months and purchasing promotional items with their name printed on them on their way out the door. The now-former sheriffs generally disputed these accusations.


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