Source: By Karen Kane, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA), Sunday, October 21, 2007
Butler County's sheriff's deputies are now officially in a union, earning more money per hour than they used to earn.
But, language that was included in an arbitrator's agreement and was approved last week by county commissioners gives the county the right to privatize some of the deputies' functions.
....... The focus is on the front doors of the courthouse, where visitors are required to pass through a metal detector. If it sounds, a sheriff's deputy uses a metal detector wand for a closer scanning of the individual.
