For three months, back and forth between the Lake County Sheriff’s Office and the county administration delayed the transfer of inmates from a short-staffed Lake County Jail to another facility as …
Inmates work on an art project in one of the pods at the Waukegan-based Lake County jail in June 2019. For three months, back and forth between the Lake County Sheriff’s Office and the county administration delayed the transfer of inmates from a short-staffed Lake County Jail to another facility as the two county departments tried, and ultimately failed, to arrange the transfer by intergovernmental contract.
Covelli said the attempts to present the intergovernmental agreement to the County Board were “stifled” for reasons unknown to the sheriff’s department. With a shortage of correctional officers, there was a significant amount of overtime, with staff having to work multiple consecutive shifts in the jail.
On four occasions in the fall, the IGA was slated for the county’s Law and Judicial Committee for consideration, but the item was either removed or the meeting was canceled, according to Covelli. The IGA was held back even after multiple meetings with county staff, a written questionnaire and other attempts at collaboration, he added.
It was “out of the ordinary” for a county office to be required to submit written questions in advance, Covelli said. This was the only item the sheriff’s office has had pulled from agendas in recent years, he added. “I think there’s a perception like ‘oh, I entered it, and therefore it shall be heard,’” Hart said. “Well, that would mean that the county admin wasn’t doing their job either.”
Ultimately, it was Gibson, the former county administrator, and his process that determined what did or did not get on the agenda, Sutton said. Lake County Chief of Corrections Richard Clouse said competitive wages and benefits would go a long way to help with recruitment and retention.During a late December meeting, Sutton said she was “still very hopeful” that the administration would be taking an intergovernmental agreement to the County Board at the January meeting.
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