09jisaac
Regular Member
From the Levisa Lazer:
This is getting on my nerves. I didn't get the chance to go to this meeting so I don't know anymore than this article.
Also, I think someone told me that fiscal courts cannot pass an ordinance (1st or 2nd reading) during a special meeting. Did I just imagine that or can someone point me to that information?
Another "hot" topic at today's meeting was how to handle the state's requirement that the 'open carry' laws for weapons which is a federal law, could be changed so that people are not allowed to carry a weapon in the courthouse.
County Attorney Michael Hogan and Sheriff Garrett Roberts have been adament in their call for the court to do something about the law which cannot be ignored by localities.
Sheriff Garrett Roberts and County Attorney Mike Hogan are working on a lawsuit that would forbid the 'open carrying' of weapons in the courthouse. "I don't thimk people realize how many times on Mondays that people lose custody of their children for one reason or another which makes them mad enough to harm court officials," Hogan said. "There are several issues that make people so angry they might use a weapon if they had one."
The court has been wrestling with the issue since Osborne received a letter and a complaint from a Lawrence County citizen asking that the law be enforced and citizens allowed to carry weapons in the courthouse like the consittution says. Roberts and Hogan do not deny the legality of the 'open carry' law but say they want to challenge it.
The fiscal court voted 4-0 today on a motion by Bill Lemaster and second by Earl Boggs to have Hogan file a lawsuit challenging the validity of the law although Hogan said he is still researching whether to file it in Lawrence Circuit Court or in Frankfort.
"I'm all for hunting rights and the right to own weapons," Magistrate Morris Howard said. "But I just can't see people carrying around guns in the courthouse, why would they want to do that?"
This is getting on my nerves. I didn't get the chance to go to this meeting so I don't know anymore than this article.
Also, I think someone told me that fiscal courts cannot pass an ordinance (1st or 2nd reading) during a special meeting. Did I just imagine that or can someone point me to that information?