Sheriff’s Office Needs More Deputies and Better Pay, Says Crenshaw

During this week’s Oconee County Council meeting, Sheriff Mike Crenshaw expressed the need to hire as many as four or five new deputies annually, and to raise salaries in order to compete with other agencies in the state.

With a current staff of little more than 100, in a county where the population is on the rise and new construction is booming, he said the workload is spread very thin…