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Wheeler responds to executive sessions recordings

by LAUREN REICHENBACH
Staff Writer | November 15, 2023 1:00 AM

SANDPOINT — Following the discovery that a Bonner County Sheriff’s deputy has been recording during Bonner County commissioners’ executive sessions, Sheriff Daryl Wheeler explained the reason why the deputy has been instructed to do so and what happens with those recordings.

Wheeler reiterated that the reason the deputy is at the meetings has to do with a protection order that Commissioner Asia Williams has against Commissioner Steve Bradshaw for alleged threats he made against her.

“The judge's order of protection in this case is very unique,” Wheeler said. “His order stated, ‘Respondent may attend commissioner meetings with petitioner but shall possess no firearms or other weapons at such meetings or on any other county-owned property, and shall submit to searches to verify the absence of weapons.’”

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