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Last month, when told of a staffing problem at the new jail, the supervisors washed their hands of it, maintaining that the matter would have to be settled between the State Department of Corrections and the Compensation Board.
The two agencies do exercise considerable control over law enforcement contingents and jails. The Department of Corrections can dictate that jailers won’t serve double^duty as distpatchers. The Compensation Board has authority to establish the number of law enforcement positions—including dispatchers who also handle fire and rescue calls—to be funded by the state.
To date, the Compensation Board has only approved positions of jailers for Rappahannock. At the same time, the Department of Corrections has warned that the county’s jail will be closed if jailers are used as dispatchers.
While the beaurocratics are thrashing out the staffing question, county residents must continue to call Culpeper and Front Royal in emergencies. Rappahannock’s jail sits empty and our deputies spend hours carting prisoners back and forth to
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