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THE Rappahannock Sheriff’s department’s difficulties with arbitrary federal regulations provide yet another example of how rules adopted by absentee bureaucrats can really be ridiculous when insisted upon at the local level. No, not ridiculous—they could even be dangerous, where the welfare of the public is concerned.
Somewhat ironically, it is another non- local agency— Regional Planning District 9— which is trying to do something about the situation. At their last meeting, members of the Rappahannock-Rapidan Planning District board passed a resolution imploring the Virginia Council on Criminal Justice, which dispenses Law Enforcement Assistance Ad-‘ ministration (LEAA) funding, to delete a 24-hour- on-duty requirement for receiving grant money.
The LEAA has decreed that while small rural Rappahannock must have “basic investigation equipment,” it must
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