To my fellow citizens of Dodge County:
This election year is very important. There are many issues that must be resolved to get our great country heading in the right direction. I have to admit, I have taken a much greater interest in these elections than those of the past. In doing so, I have discovered one thing on a local level, that to me, was a little disturbing. Last fall, there was an incident reported to the Dodge County Sheriff’s Department that involved our Sheriff, Jim Trihey. This resulted in Sheriff Trihey being put on administrative leave for a period of time, which if my memory serves correctly, was in the news briefly. Also, there was never an explanation to the citizens of ‘why’ this action was taken. It seems a little odd that a sheriff would be put on leave for any reason at all. As I have further looked into this issue, I have discovered that Dodge County has hired an outside investigator or attorney to investigate Sheriff Trihey’s involvement in this incident. This cost the taxpayers of Dodge County over $22,000! This is very troubling to me since I have lived in Dodge County all of my life, and never once, that I can recall, has a sheriff been the focus of an investigation. Also, if I may point out, he was never elected sheriff but was appointed by the county board after a recommendation by a retiring sheriff around a year ago. Which is also troubling to me since only being there a short period of time, this much attention has been brought to the sheriff’s department as a whole.
This has raised more questions in my mind about this whole incident. What other expenses were incurred by taxpayers during this investigation? How much did it cost us to pay a sheriff that was ‘put’ on leave? How about the salaries of the other county officials that were working on the investigation? I feel it is very important for the citizens of Dodge County to know ‘who’ is leading our distinguished Sheriff’s Department. This raised another question; why aren’t we, the taxpayers, allowed to know what the investigation was about? I believe we have every right to know what is going on in our ‘own’ sheriff’s department, especially when it comes to the man who is suppose to be leading it.
Concerned citizen of Dodge County,
Dalen Maxson
Thank you for your time for writing this letter. I feel that it is a very important issue also.
ReplyDeleteWhat else is going on over their that they dont tell us about.
ReplyDeletejust keep watching the news...
ReplyDeleteThe 22,000 was spent having Washington County investigate Jeremy Gunderson. Sheriff Trihey requested this outside investigation, which is correct protocol when investigating someone in your own department.
ReplyDelete"What else is going on over their that they dont tell us about." OK, somebody called the Jim Trihey campaign and asked that a Trihey sign be removed from their yard. Trihey removed that sign. The true property owner then called and reported a sign being stolen. Turned out the first caller was a fraud. Nothing new for the Jim Jensen group. This property owner then asked for TWO Trihey signs for her yard and there they stand today!
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