Grants could support new sheriff equipment, trainings

  • County Judge Bill Gravell, center, holds up a Level III/IIIA rifle-resistant body armor that will be for Sheriff Deputies. Photos by Nalani Nuylan.
    County Judge Bill Gravell, center, holds up a Level III/IIIA rifle-resistant body armor that will be for Sheriff Deputies. Photos by Nalani Nuylan.

    Sheriff Matt Lindemann is pursuing federal grants to help fund the Sheriff’s Office’s Victim Services Unit and new body armor for deputies. 

    “There’s only one thing I care about each night, [and it’s] that every one of our men and women go home alive, period,” County Judge Bill Gravell said before county commissioners greenlit the applications Tuesday, February 11. “The grant for this may…