Missouri does not have enough hospital beds for mental health patients, and hundreds of them across the state are being housed in county jails. That includes northwest Missouri’s Buchanan County. Sheriff Bill Puett described a dire situation this week to the Missouri...
Missouri sheriffs are asking the state legislature to address their priorities, including tightening Missouri sentencing laws. Buchanan County Sheriff Bill Puett said the Missouri Sheriffs Association has been pushing the proposed “Truth in Sentencing”...
A committee formed by the Missouri Association of Counties is working to find solutions to help get mentally ill people treatment, rather than incarceration. Buchanan County Sheriff Bill Puett, a member of that committee, said on any given day Missouri jails could be...
Missouri’s governor has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff at government buildings in northwest Missouri’s DeKalb County on Wednesday, to honor the sheriff who was killed in a traffic crash last week. Sheriff Andy Clark was killed last Wednesday on...
(News director Brent Martin from Missourinet St. Joseph affiliate KFEQ contributed to this story) The sheriff in northwest Missouri’s DeKalb County has been killed in a car crash that happened late Wednesday morning on Highway 36 at the Osborn junction. Our...
