The Columbia County Sheriff's Department weapons storage facility is at 75 percent capacity of its weapons storage, according to Sheriff Timothy Chamberlain. Columbia and other rural counties tend to take multiple guns -- often dozens -- from defendants ordered to relinquish their weapons as part of protection from abuse orders.
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The Columbia County Sheriff's Department weapons storage facility is at 75 percent capacity of its weapons storage, according to Sheriff Timothy Chamberlain. Columbia and other rural counties tend to take multiple guns -- often dozens -- from defendants ordered to relinquish their weapons as part of protection from abuse orders.
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The Columbia County Sheriff’s Department weapons storage facility is at 75 percent capacity of its weapons storage, according to Sheriff Timothy Chamberlain. Columbia and other rural counties tend to take multiple guns — often dozens — from defendants ordered to relinquish their weapons as part of protection from abuse orders.
Some counties are noticing an impact on weapon storage capacity and/or manpower, nearly three months after state law changed to require all people with a final protection from abuse order to turn over their weapons. My full story is here.
Before the new law took effect, PFA filings had been on the rise throughout the commonwealth, the York Daily Record reported.
On a firearms-related note: Gov. Tom Wolf says he won’t support arming teachers in schools, which is provided for in a bill awaiting his signature. In this story, PA Post’s Ed Mahon and Keystone Crossroads’ Avi Wolfman-Arent looked at that and six other education issues, and where they stand, as the legislature breaks for the summer.
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The entrance to Erie Coke.
The state is moving to close Erie Coke, which has a lengthy list of environmental violations dating back at least a decade. Marie Cusick has the full story for StateImpact Pennsylvania.
In Central Pennsylvania, police are lagging behind the rest of the country when it comes to implementing body cameras. PennLive’s Becky Metrick found just three of 22 midstate departments have the technology, versus at least a third nationwide, in reporting this storyabout the factors at play.
Auditor General Eugene DePasquale, who is running for a U.S. House seat, did his official campaign kickoff yesterday. Rachel McDevitt covered it for WITF.
