Does the Shawano County Sheriff’s Department need a conference room?
Sheriff candidate Adam Bieber isn’t sure, and it’s one of the questions he has thrown out in his campaign against incumbent Randy Wright.
Bieber thinks it’s not just the department’s evidence storage needs that should be re-evaluated but all department space.
“I think the Sheriff’s Department itself, the space itself should be looked at,” Bieber said. “I know they have a big conference room in there. There’s conference rooms right across the street (at the courthouse).”
The conference room at the Sheriff’s Department, also known as the James Stoltenow Training Room, is also the department’s emergency operations center.
According to the department, the room has been used 98 times this year for such things as division and staff meetings, briefings on search warrants, and special tactical detail and command staff meetings. The county’s Public Safety Committee also uses the room for its regular monthly meetings.
It also serves as a backup for additional dispatch staff.
Security and space needs at both the Sheriff’s Department and courthouse were studied by Virchow, Krause and Co. in 2005.
A justice center proposed to address those problems was voted down in 2009.
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