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Denton Record-Chronicle
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
phree said. The sheriff also cre-
ated a position dedicated to
tracking and registering sex of-
fenders.
Murphree said the office is
now prioritizing veterans in the
hiring process. And for the first
time in years, employees will be
able to refer to a comprehensive
policy manual. Previously, em-
ployees referred to policies from
previous administrations sim-
ply because the policy manuals
hadn’t been updated, he said.
At the start of his speech,
Murphree, who routinely voices
his opinion on national trage-
dies, discussed an email he sent
to his employees Tuesday morn-
ing about sheriff’s office policy
in an active-shooter incident.
His comments followed re-
ports that possibly up to four
sheriff’s deputies remained out-
side Marjory Stoneman Doug-
las High School in Parkland,
Florida, as a former student
shot and killed students and
teachers in the building.
“We do not stage and wait for
SWAT,” Murphree said in the
email. “We do not take cover in a
parking lot, and we do not wait
for another agency. We go in
and do our duty.”
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Confederate
museum inside the Courthouse
on the Square.
Commissioner Hugh Cole-
man, who was the only commis-
sioner to oppose the monument
committee’s creation, also has
tossed around the idea that the
new plaque should include a
quote from Martin Luther King
Jr. or President Abraham Lin-
colns Gettysburg Address.
According to Commissioner
Andy Eads, the concept needs
some technical refinements be-
fore commissioners make any
kind of guarantee about the fi-
nal product.
Meanwhile, behind the
scenes, Denton County Office of
History and Culture Director
Peggy Riddle has gotten the ball
rolling. Her office is leading the
charge on the project, and she’s
making eveiy effort to execute
the committee’s recommenda-
tion as it was proposed, she said
in an interview Tuesday.
“We should be gearing up
and presenting some ideas to
the court in a couple weeks,”
said Riddle, who served as the
advisory committee’s only non-
voting member. “My job will be
looking at manufacturers who
make sturdy exterior kiosks.
And I’ll be looking at different
museums and sites that use
them and then bring that infor-
mation back and coordinate
with technology services, as well
as our facilities departments,
and maybe bring in an engineer
to see how all this works.”
Riddle did most of the
chores during the committee
meetings eveiy Thursday
morning, organizing an ever-
growing stack of research docu-
ments for historical discussions
and occasionally providing cof-
fee for the members. She also at-
tended the evening forums to
gather public input.
Riddle said she’s been busy
with the Courthouse-on-the-
Square Museum restoration af-
ter a Dec. 26 fire at the Down-
town Mini Mall left a layer of
smoke and soot inside the coun-
ty building.
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“I feel like I’ve got a lot of re-
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calendar for the foreseeable fu-
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Riddle said she’s already had
informal conversations with
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officials who support the con-
cept for the Confederate monu-
ment. She said a county preser-
vation architect has been re-
searching outdoor video kiosks.
Riddle also has been in touch
with filmmakers in the Dallas
area to work on the content for
the video monitors, which
would include discussions
about race relations in Denton,
she said.
“[The video will] be on the
civil rights movement,” Riddle
said. “It will cover everything
that the committee recom-
mended. We have information
on the slaves who were in Den-
ton County and the families that
stayed in Denton County who
are still part of our heritage. So
we’ll have all of those, and then
the filmmaker will take all that
context and turn it into visuals.”
As for the monument’s large
plaque decrying slavery, Riddle
expects her staff to come up
with specific language with the
help of various African-Ameri-
can scholars in the area, she
said.
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At the start of Tuesday’s
Commissioners Court meeting,
Denton County Sheriff Tracy
Murphree de-
livered a half-
hour update
about
sheriff’s office
since he took
over Jan. \
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Last year,
the drug en-
forcement unit seized $7.2 mil-
lion worth of drugs, including
60,000 grams of cocaine worth
about $3.6 million. He said the
unit took about $32,000 worth
of weapons off the street.
Murphree also highlighted
some administrative changes at
the start of the year, such as can-
celing an underused drug lab in
Denton, renewing the relation-
ship with the FBI Joint Tenor-
ism Task Force and streamlin-
ing the hiring process.
The sheriff’s office created
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an internal affairs division,
which was responsible for 61 in-
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