Bonus commissioners coverage
We couldn't get a few items in the dead-trees account of Thursday's Guilford County commmissioners meeting, so here's some additional tidbits for your review:
- Sheriff BJ Barnes defended his decision to equip school officers with Tasers. The commissioners couldn't do much about it anyway because the sheriff controls what weapons his officers carry.
Also at the meeting was freshly anointed Democratic sheriff's candidate Berkley Blanks. It'll be interesting to see how the Taser issue affects the general-election campaign.
More on Tasers in schools here.
- And in what is becoming a regular feature of these meetings, the commissioners released 26 positions from the countywide hiring freeze enacted in February. This batch includes a dozen social services caseworkers, a dentist and a psychiatrist.