Opinion No.

The Honorable Bob Watts State Representative Route 1, Box 125 Harrison, AR 72601

Dear Representative Watts:

This is in response to your request for an opinion on the following question:

Whose responsibility and obligation is it to pick up city prisoners located outside the county and transport them back into the county for housing in the city jail facility?

You note that this question arises when the sheriff's office is asked to leave the county and pick up a city prisoner and transport that prisoner back into the county for the city, to be housed in the city jail facility.

The answer to your…