Dermott Special School District v. Brown

I am unable to join in the court’s retreat from what seems to me to be an obviously correct legal result reached in the original opinion handed down July 17, 1972, in spite of the fact that it is probably less appealing because of its potential impact upon the adequacy of financing the law enforcement at the county level in certain counties in this state. No one is more aware than I of the plight in which some sheriffs find themselves when they are forced to try to man, maintain and equip an effective, modern law enforcement agency without resort to anything except the fees that office may…