While not talking specifically about consolidation, there is a question about combining the police and sheriff's office to handle law enforcement countywide. Ford uses the opportunity to say he has oppposed consolidation all along, including fire and police
Luttrell also says he opposes combining law enforcement, but if they are combined, they should be under the sheriff, and not a police director or other appointed position.
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Luttrell's right about this one. I don't know what insider political crap caused the charter commission of relative nobodies to try to gut the Sheriff's office in the state's biggest county, but I will be fighting that weird outcome and voting and blogging (in my own inimitable cut-throat style) against any charter that makes that the structure and any chumps that proposed it.