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County Steps Up Security in
Trial Run of Metal Detector
Tuesday, June 20, 2006,
C-T Article Catherine Stortz Ripley, News Editor
Individuals visiting the Livingston County courthouse were met by sheriff's deputies and a walk-through metal detector today. The county received the equipment through grant money; however, the grant did not fund the necessary staffing for the detector. Today, which is law day, was the first time that the detector had been used on the main floor of the courthouse.
Signs posted on the doors of the Livingston County courthouse state that no weapons of any kind are allowed in the courthouse. Yet, some weapons, indeed, are carried in without being noticed.
In fact, not long ago, an individual who is now incarcerated in the county jail reportedly carried a concealed knife with a blade in excess of 4.5 inches long - a length considered to be lethal - into the
courthouse. Thanks to the observation of a courthouse employee who saw the individual acting in an unusual manner and notified law enforcement, the weapon was found and confiscated.
Without requiring individuals to go through a metal detector, no one knows who enters the courthouse with weapons.
So, in an effort to step up security, the Livingston County sheriff's department set up a walk-through metal detector on first floor of the courthouse, virtually prohibiting anyone from gaining access to some first floor offices as well the stairs and elevator which lead to courtrooms and more county offices without first going through the metal detector.
But, even with the metal detector very evident on the first floor, four of the 200 people entering the courthouse were carrying pocket knives. A fifth person, after seeing the metal detector, chose to re-enter at another time.
Today was just a trial run of what could become a permanent practice in the future.
“Some people are happy about it,” Sheriff Steve Cox . “Some employees think that we ought to be doing it all of the time.”
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New County Bridges
Laura Schuler/C-T City Editor,
Thursday, May 18, 2006
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Livingston County Commissioners Ken Lauhoff and Kenneth Warren, along with Charlie Peniston, of Sampsel Township, met this
morning northwest of Chillicothe to inspect two new soft-match bridges, one of which is pictured above and spans Indian Creek. The bridge, which officially opened today, is 90-by-24 feet and cost $171,480.
Meeting with the commissioners this morning was Steven D. Shafer, P.E., senior field engineer for Harrington & Cortelyou, Inc., the project engineer company; and David Young, of Nemo Construction, the company which built the bridge.
C-T Photo / Laura Schuler
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Livingston
County Courthouse
700 Webster Street
Chillicothe, MO 64601
660-646-8000
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