Commissioners wrestle providing full-time 911 dispatch service to Roberts County and fireworks enforcement
Commissioners endorsed an interlocal agreement on Monday allowing the Hemphill County Sheriff’s Office to handle dispatch and 911 calls for the Roberts County Sheriff’s Office—a service HCSO dispatchers have already been handling on a part-time basis, but for which it will now assume the responsibility 24/7, if officials in the two counties can agree on reasonable compensation to cover th...