{"id":18287,"date":"2017-03-29T10:27:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T14:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=18287"},"modified":"2017-07-05T12:55:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T16:55:44","slug":"videos-sheriff-still-wants-warrants-elections-judges-ems-coroner-budget-requests-2-of-3-days-lcc-2017-03-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/videos-sheriff-still-wants-warrants-elections-judges-ems-coroner-budget-requests-2-of-3-days-lcc-2017-03-28.html","title":{"rendered":"Videos: Sheriff still wants warrants, elections, judges, EMS coroner, Budget Requests (2 of 3 days) @ LCC 2017-03-28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/zT9XpLBy7nY\/mqdefault.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nSheriff Ashley Paulk\r\n<a href=\"#Sheriff-Ashley-Paulk-Budget-Request\">\r\nstill wants a warrant before he turns anybody over to ICE<\/a>.\r\nI agree with him that there&#8217;s no point in arresting people who are busy\r\nworking in the fields.\r\nGeorgia already tried that a few years ago, and crops rotted.\r\n<p>\r\nThese are the LAKE videos from day 2 of 3. They&#8217;re back at it this morning,\r\nand Gretchen is there with the LAKE video camera.\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nThe \r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/videos-budget-requests-1-of-3-days-lcc-2017-03-27.html\">\r\nBoard of Elections got the second-longest discussion at 44 minutes<\/a>,\r\npartly because the Elections Supervisor kept using jargon it&#8217;s not clear\r\nthe Commissioners understood.\r\nLongest discussion was with\r\n<a href=\"#Coroner-Austin-Fiveash-Budget-Requst\">\r\nnewly-elected Coroner Austin Fiveash<\/a>,\r\nwhose office has been kicked out of Remerton, which used to heavily subsidize it,\r\nand he apparently didn&#8217;t know the Coroner doesn&#8217;t get a car supplied,\r\nnor any office help.\r\nWhen asked why he picked an assistant coroner who already had a half-time job,\r\nhe said nobody wanted this job.\r\nWell, apparently he did: he ran for it.\r\n<p>\r\nAnd <em>still<\/em> no agenda <a href=\"http:\/\/lowndescounty.com\/Calendar.aspx?EID=218&#038;month=3&#038;year=2017&#038;day=28&#038;calType=0\">\r\non the county&#8217;s website<\/a>.\r\nWhy doesn&#8217;t the county want the tax-paying public to know what they&#8217;re doing?<!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nThe Tax Assessors and Behavioral Health didn&#8217;t show up\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/videos-budget-requests-1-of-3-days-lcc-2017-03-27.html\">Monday on day 1<\/a>;\r\nmaybe they&#8217;ll show up today.\r\n<p>\r\nHere are links to each of the LAKE videos of this day 2 of 3 budget meeting,\r\nfollowed by a video playlist.\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>\r\n<a name=\"Sheriff-Ashley-Paulk-Budget-Request\" href=\"#Sheriff-Ashley-Paulk-Budget-Request\">\r\n      Sheriff Ashley Paulk Budget Request\r\n    <\/a>\r\n<a title=\"video: \r\n      Sheriff Ashley Paulk Budget Request\r\n    \" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zT9XpLBy7nY&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy&#038;index=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none\" alt=\"\r\n      Sheriff Ashley Paulk Budget Request\r\n    \" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/zT9XpLBy7nY\/hqdefault.jpg?custom=true&#038;w=168&#038;h=94&#038;stc=true&#038;jpg444=true&#038;jpgq=90&#038;sp=68&#038;sigh=nuK98u8-Ikon1V6Rbs-hXWzpkt4\"><\/a>\r\n<p style=\"font-style:normal\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zT9XpLBy7nY&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy&#038;index=1\">Video.<\/a>\r\nAverage of 550 inmates in the jail, with intention to close the old jail soon.\r\nAs the Sheriff remarked, Commissioner Clay Griner came in late after that.\r\n(That number is down from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/videos-annual-planning-meeting-day-1-lcc-2017-02-16.html#Sheriff-Ashley-Paulk\">620-630 six weeks ago<\/a>.)\r\n<p style=\"font-style:normal\">\r\nWork release is going well, said the Sheriff, mostly employed by South Georgia Pecan.\r\nAnkle monitoring is picking back up; he said it is a &#8220;workable program&#8221;.\r\nLaw library is mandatory, and budget amount is the same every year.\r\n<p style=\"font-style:normal\">\r\nYes, the Sheriff is doing drug busts for revenue, including \r\none for marijuana oil that come in from Colorado where it&#8217;s legal,\r\nbut it&#8217;s not here.\r\nAt the end of this video, you can hear one Commissioner say\r\n&#8220;our Illustrous Potentate&#8221; suggested shipping it back to Colorado\r\nand selling it for money.\r\nI don&#8217;t know which one said that nor which one is the Illustrous Potentate,\r\nbut presumably that&#8217;s a reference to\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/a-special-meetin-we-get-back-to-hahira-shriners-convention-by-ray-stevens-1980.html\">Shriner&#8217;s Convention by Ray Stevens, 1980<\/a>.\r\n<p>\r\nThey discussed jail commissary expenses: got to feed inmates.\r\n<p style=\"font-style:normal\">\r\nCommissioner Demarcus Marshall asked:\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zT9XpLBy7nY&#038;t=15m42s\">\r\n&#8220;Sheriff Paulk, I have one other question: have we made any arrests regarding any illegal immigrants or anything like that?&#8221;<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\n&ldquo;My position on that, you know: we&#8217;re going to look at people if they got a warrant.\r\nAnd in my 17 years we had one, one illegal immigrant that did a major crime.\r\nHe did a murder in Mexico and he was employed by the City of Valdosta.\r\nHe was a very good employee; he&#8217;d been here quite a while.\r\n<p>\r\n&ldquo;But uh, you know people got to look at it, if you go out&#8230;.\r\nAll right, just because somebody is hispanic, if you stop them,\r\nif you start arresting them, all right, you&#8217;re violating federal law;\r\nyou&#8217;re profiling.\r\nAnd there&#8217;s a lot of hispanics here that are here legally.\r\nSo you start doing that, and it&#8217;s just not a good use of your resources.\r\n<p>\r\n&ldquo;I mean, these people are very, the hispanics in my history \r\nyou know they&#8217;re hard working, they go home at night.\r\nYes, the young guys will do like every other \r\nguy that&#8217;s 20 years old.\r\nThey&#8217;ll get to drinking, drink some beers, get in a fight every now and then.\r\nAll in all, you know the crime rate of hispanics is not there.\r\nAnd so if ICE comes in here and they got warrants, we&#8217;re going to look\r\nfor them just like anybody else and we&#8217;ll arrest them, you know.\r\n<p>\r\n&ldquo;But you just gotta prioritize what you you&#8217;re gonna do.\r\nAnd you know if they&#8217;re not a problem to us.\r\nBut they&#8217;re such an asset to the farmers.\r\nI mean Echols County, and not just farmers.\r\nGo out to the new high school.\r\nEvery mason out there seems to be hispanic.\r\nI mean they can&#8217;t find in the construction indsutry.\r\nYou would shut down the economy if you did,\r\nif you just went out and wholesale locked them up.\r\n<p>\r\n&ldquo;And then you gotta feed &#8217;em.\r\nYou&#8217;re going to keep them about three months and ICE is going to say,\r\nwell, we&#8217;re not going to send a bus, turn them loose.\r\nSo you sat there and you spent $150, $200,000 and you&#8217;ve got no results\r\nexcept feeding people\r\nyou know for three months.\r\n<p>\r\n&ldquo;I look at that as you&#8217;ve gotta prioritize.\r\nYou know I want to cover the robberies, the rapes, and things like that.\r\nWhich they&#8217;re not doing.&rdquo;\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<li>\r\n<a name=\"Board-of-Elections-Budget\" href=\"#Board-of-Elections-Budget\">\r\n      Board of Elections Budget\r\n    <\/a>\r\n<a title=\"video: \r\n      Board of Elections Budget\r\n    \" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EbR5hmr8plM&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy&#038;index=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none\" alt=\"\r\n      Board of Elections Budget\r\n    \" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/EbR5hmr8plM\/hqdefault.jpg?custom=true&#038;w=168&#038;h=94&#038;stc=true&#038;jpg444=true&#038;jpgq=90&#038;sp=68&#038;sigh=T9kcp5xil0uyqfkkuUNVw9xnqGc\"><\/a>\r\n<p style=\"font-style:normal\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EbR5hmr8plM&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy&#038;index=2\">Video.<\/a>\r\nAn extra T-SPLOST election would cost more.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<li>\r\n<a name=\"Magistrate-Court-Budget-Request\" href=\"#Magistrate-Court-Budget-Request\">\r\n      Magistrate Court Budget Request\r\n    <\/a>\r\n<a title=\"video: \r\n      Magistrate Court Budget Request\r\n    \" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=obEFQyq-K_E&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy&#038;index=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none\" alt=\"\r\n      Magistrate Court Budget Request\r\n    \" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/obEFQyq-K_E\/hqdefault.jpg?custom=true&#038;w=168&#038;h=94&#038;stc=true&#038;jpg444=true&#038;jpgq=90&#038;sp=68&#038;sigh=Hs1LHnqUlZKrgWjFh620qD9gVTs\"><\/a>\r\n<p style=\"font-style:normal\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=obEFQyq-K_E&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy&#038;index=3\">Video.<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<li>\r\n<a name=\"Family-Services-Budget-Request\" href=\"#Family-Services-Budget-Request\">\r\n      Family Services Budget Request\r\n    <\/a>\r\n<a title=\"video: \r\n      Family Services Budget Request\r\n    \" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8ptLPkzG4KA&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy&#038;index=4\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none\" alt=\"\r\n      Family Services Budget Request\r\n    \" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/8ptLPkzG4KA\/hqdefault.jpg?custom=true&#038;w=168&#038;h=94&#038;stc=true&#038;jpg444=true&#038;jpgq=90&#038;sp=68&#038;sigh=7Hi9S8K5WzCsx7gMtPIoR57ucQE\"><\/a>\r\n<p style=\"font-style:normal\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8ptLPkzG4KA&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy&#038;index=4\">Video.<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<li>\r\n<a name=\"Sheriff-Ashley-Paulk-remove-some-contingency\" href=\"#Sheriff-Ashley-Paulk-remove-some-contingency\">\r\n      Sheriff Ashley Paulk &#8211; remove some contingency\r\n    <\/a>\r\n<a title=\"video: \r\n      Sheriff Ashley Paulk - remove some contingency\r\n    \" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B4pYQbwlOJU&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy&#038;index=5\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none\" alt=\"\r\n      Sheriff Ashley Paulk - remove some contingency\r\n    \" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/B4pYQbwlOJU\/hqdefault.jpg?custom=true&#038;w=168&#038;h=94&#038;stc=true&#038;jpg444=true&#038;jpgq=90&#038;sp=68&#038;sigh=Zo2_gmV71eN1KXvdkebT5vCRKg8\"><\/a>\r\n<p style=\"font-style:normal\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B4pYQbwlOJU&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy&#038;index=5\">Video.<\/a>\r\nHe would have no problem with cutting in half the contingency with South Georgia\r\nMedical Center because they&#8217;re identifying the prisoners costing medical money and &#8220;one way or another&#8221; keeping them out of jail.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<li>\r\n<a name=\"Clerk-of-Court-and-Board-of-Equalization\" href=\"#Clerk-of-Court-and-Board-of-Equalization\">\r\n      Clerk of Court and Board of Equalization\r\n    <\/a>\r\n<a title=\"video: \r\n      Clerk of Court and Board of Equalization\r\n    \" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ipPFNQTG9s8&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy&#038;index=6\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none\" alt=\"\r\n      Clerk of Court and Board of Equalization\r\n    \" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ipPFNQTG9s8\/hqdefault.jpg?custom=true&#038;w=168&#038;h=94&#038;stc=true&#038;jpg444=true&#038;jpgq=90&#038;sp=68&#038;sigh=NRCwRlQ81FPn7qvlJe_EFQg4p6M\"><\/a>\r\n<p style=\"font-style:normal\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ipPFNQTG9s8&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy&#038;index=6\">Video.<\/a>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowndescounty.com\/241\/Clerk-of-Court\">\r\nClerk of Court Beth Greene<\/a> presented.\r\nThey nickle and dimed about office supplies.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<li>\r\n<a name=\"Coroner-Austin-Fiveash-Budget-Requst\" href=\"#Coroner-Austin-Fiveash-Budget-Requst\">\r\n      Coroner Austin Fiveash Budget Requst\r\n    <\/a>\r\n<a title=\"video: \r\n      Coroner Austin Fiveash Budget Requst\r\n    \" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rgS9PMzwQc8&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy&#038;index=7\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none\" alt=\"\r\n      Coroner Austin Fiveash Budget Requst\r\n    \" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/rgS9PMzwQc8\/hqdefault.jpg?custom=true&#038;w=168&#038;h=94&#038;stc=true&#038;jpg444=true&#038;jpgq=90&#038;sp=68&#038;sigh=-guZOXbe9yZazzwh4i6AtmfZClo\"><\/a>\r\n<p style=\"font-style:normal\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rgS9PMzwQc8&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy&#038;index=7\">Video.<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<li>\r\n<a name=\"EMS-Budget-Request\" href=\"#EMS-Budget-Request\">\r\n      EMS Budget Request\r\n    <\/a>\r\n<a title=\"video: \r\n      EMS Budget Request\r\n    \" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EXVlO1RSKZw&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy&#038;index=8\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none\" alt=\"\r\n      EMS Budget Request\r\n    \" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/EXVlO1RSKZw\/hqdefault.jpg?custom=true&#038;w=168&#038;h=94&#038;stc=true&#038;jpg444=true&#038;jpgq=90&#038;sp=68&#038;sigh=KWyEiBvLdeys5ZLp_iY8x2QXDMU\"><\/a>\r\n<p style=\"font-style:normal\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EXVlO1RSKZw&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy&#038;index=8\">Video.<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>\r\nHere&#8217;s\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy\">\r\na LAKE video playlist:<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLshUv86fYkiH07eWIALGdFIcmLiCY-fTy\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<br>\r\nVideos: Sheriff still wants warrants, elections, judges, EMS coroner, Budget Requests (2 of 3 days)\r\n<br>\r\nBudget, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),\r\n<br>\r\nVideo by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),\r\n<br>\r\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, March 28, 2017.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-style:italic\">Investigative reporting costs money, for open records requests, copying, web hosting, gasoline, and cameras, and with sufficient funds we can pay students to do further research.  You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/donate\">donate to LAKE today<\/a>!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheriff Ashley Paulk still wants a warrant before he turns anybody over to ICE. I agree with him that there&#8217;s no point in arresting people who are busy working in the fields. Georgia already tried that a few years ago, and crops rotted. These are the LAKE videos from day 2 of 3. 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