Partnering with the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office

Welcome to the LPPS District Download, the official podcast of Livingston Parish Public Schools. Join me, Superintendent Jody Pervis, as we spotlight our schools, celebrate our achievements, and share stories of strong schools building stronger communities in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. Welcome back to another episode of LPPS District Download.

Today we have one of those topics that's always at the top of our priority list, and that is school safety and making sure that our students and our employees are safe. And so I wanted to bring on somebody who is have been loyal to our system, has been a tremendous partner with our system, and works really closely with Livingston Parish School System, and that's the Livingston Parish Sheriff, Jason R.

So welcome.

Well, thank you for letting me be here. It's uh always great to be anywhere in the parish uh with uh someone like you, Jody Purvis. You know, great reputation and you do so much for our schools, but no, really, I I I really enjoy our partnership, uh, what we try to accomplish every day uh in our school system because let's uh really face uh if you really want to face the reality of things, if we can invest in our kids, it just makes such a huge difference whenever those kids one day become the citizens that are running these businesses and they're they're just they're our future.

And so we have to invest in them, and so we try to do what we can on our end, the sheriff's office, to make sure this partnership works and uh and is successful in the end.

Well, and I I think that's what's important is us all working together. And you know, we have quite a few conversations and we might be at meetings, and so today's a little bit special because we're not dealing with an incident. We're just gonna sit down and have a casual conversation. Because what I what I would like to kind of talk about is is exactly what all is included in our partnership.

Well, yeah, Jody, I think it would be proper for me to start off with the school resource officer program. Uh it's one of the things that I am I hate to use the term most proud of, but I really am because whenever I took over in 2012 as a sheriff here in Livingston, I wanted a school resource officer in our school.

And um, so we actually we did have a school resource officer in Dental Springs. Uh, and it was Paul Goldman was actually the first uh school resource officer we had, we had here in the parish. I brought over Aaron Bond. He was actually employed at East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office, and I told him, look, we'll win this election, I want you to come over.

And we uh I think it was, let's see, so it would have been John Watson, was the superintendent at the time, and so we brought over Aaron, and he was a school resource off resource in Watson. We kind of chose that area because it was kind of, you know, rules, a big, big school, a lot of things going on, and and uh we just was gonna test it and see how it worked.

And of course, it was a hit because now we're at 17 school resource officers across the parish. Two of those are employed by the Dental Springs Police Department, and the rest are basically ours. I provide provide two of them. I think if I'm right, 15 of those we share their salaries and those things.

And I have two, I just kind of added one of those is kind of the supervisor, and one's a a canine officer, uh, which is necessary. Now, when we say canine, he's just a strictly drug dog. Uh it's not a a biting dog that we bring in the school, you know, with the kids. And most parents that are listening know that.

Uh so it's just a just a tool that's that's necessary that we provide. So we have so many things that we're able to do in the school, but the school resource officer is so important to um so many things. They're not only right they're there for the school and the and the the principal, the the staff to be able to help them with certain things come up.

And a lot of times the parents may think of um, well, there's a deputy with a gun on campus. I don't like focusing on that. We do have a uniform presence, but their number one uh job for me, yes, is always safety, but we like to focus on being a mentor. And there's so many stories that we have with these school resource officers being mentors.

If you watch our social media page, I mean both of us share those uh great events where school resource officers are you know dressing up during Halloween, just just putting themselves with those kids and and building relationships. And it's just so important because that is also where we get a lot of information, and that information sometimes is pertinent to school safety.

Uh, when we get that call of a kid with a gun on campus or a kid bringing a gun tomorrow to school, a lot of times that is filtered through our school resource officers because the kids trust them and they bring them this information. It's like to do the principals and teachers. When you get that trust with a child, they will bring you that information.

Uh so there's just so many things, but I I really like our school resource officers and and the opportunity to to come into the the you know the school and have such a great worker relationship, not only um, you know, just with the the the school, the teachers, the principals, but the main thing is that we get that chance to build those relationships with those children.

Well, and I think it's so important for that relationship piece because that is students that's gonna be adults, and we're building a positive relationship with law enforcement, and that's what we need. And and that's we're starting that at that young age where they understand the importance of that.

And it does help us on that prevention end. Uh, it helps us to be proactive because we are having to, you know, having those conversations and knowing where there's a need and what we need to be doing, and it allows us to kind of stay one step ahead. And and I do think the presence alone, it means a lot in the community.

So when we talk about the the presence there, we're also there's lots of other deputies that we see around um around the all of our campuses. I know on the first day of school, I was out and about quite a bit, um, and you know, lots of times since then for sure. But uh just on that day, it it was very, very evident that it seemed like every Livingston parish deputy was around some school or watching or working traffic or working in different areas around campuses, and and that meant a lot.

So tell us about that group of deputies as well.

So that's our our school security team, and you know, it's and I'm gonna speak as a dad. I can remember uh Abigail, my daughter, I I think she was a junior or a senior, I can't remember what year it was, but it was one of the latest school shootings that happened, probably. So it's probably about four or five years ago.

She's 25 now. I may be off a little bit, but there was a school shooting, a big event that happened. And I can remember getting in my my vehicle in the middle of we were working, I just walked outside, and this event happened somewhere probably in Texas, Oklahoma, just somewhere other than it wasn't in Louisiana, but I got in my my vehicle and I drove to Walker High School, and I just needed to put my eyes on her truck.

She had a little drive, a little Jeep D and I just wanted to look at it, and then the other thing I was looking for was that Walker officer. Because at the time Walker um did the school resource at Walker, and um and I also remember that during that time frame that the Walker officer was in a white vehicle, it was not marked, but I knew it was a police vehicle, and um, and that that was a little bit of uh I guess security for me to know that okay, there's an officer on campus, uh my daughter, I I see your vehicle.

Now that's me as a as a father, so I know parents think that. So it's very important that we push marked vehicles now. And so when you pass a school, now every now and then you may see an unmarked, but you can re you can tell this unmarked police officer. But you we want you to see the blue and whites, we want you to see Dillham PD, Walker PD, Livingston PD, Albany PD, Springfield, all these different agencies are involved in the school security.

And uh you may see a Springfield uh police officer in Albany. You may see an Albany one in the town of Livingston. We do whatever we can to move these people around and we have presence, and they're on campus, and what they uh they they they kind of watch over, they don't kind of do, they watch over the school and they make sure that no one's gonna get into that school.

And a lot of people say, well, they're just sitting in their vehicles and they're not directing traffic, they're not. It just takes one little thing to take their attention away from something that can be very significant, significant and devastating to our school. So their sole job is to protect that entire school campus.

That's what their job is. And look, a lot of people don't know this, and this is this happens every week. We have what we call divorce in our courtrooms, right? And they're always handing out these uh court orders and protective orders and taking kids from dads, taking kids from moms or from parents in general.

And you wouldn't believe how many people that are headed to the school to get their kids because the court system is not going to tell them what they're gonna do with their kids. And mom, your mama's not taking you from me, or your dad's not taking you from me. So it can get very dangerous very quick.

So we're now able to call that school safety deputy and say, hey, look, we have uh a person that just left the courthouse, he's just got the court order, here's the paper, and there's a lot of times, uh, or most of the times, we can stop them before they even get on campus. And that's there's no disruption, there's never a threat to a child.

Uh when you let that person get up in that office, would you we all know there's a lot of student workers in there, correct? And a disturbance breaks out, which we've had those incidents happen. It's just not fun. Uh so there's just those kind of things that happen. And look, and life goes on outside of school, right?

So we make traffic stops, we do our enforcement work. We may have a burglary in progress that's right next door to a school. Deputy drives up. This happens a lot too. Um, suspect hits the woods, now he's over running around. We don't know what we're dealing with, but we know we have a school with kids on that campus.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we have 52 sites that belong to the school system. Forty-eight of those sites have actual kids on it.

Correct.

That's a lot um to keep up with, and um we normally have uh an average last year. We averaged about 22, 20, a little over 2 people that were always at a school. When I say people, 22 of the security deputies. Now, today, this year, when uh we was able to move some things around, take on some more uh people, we're able to to somewhat cover right around 34 of those schools each and every day.

Now, make sure y'all understand this North Corbin Junior High and North Corbin Elementary is right beside each other, so one deputy can pretty much cover that. So when I say 34 deputies, we may be covering over 50 schools, right? And we also have our school resource officers out there, and then we have uh those guys that we don't talk about much that do that have also have a huge impact, and that is your DARE officers.

So we have four of those that are in those schools every semester, and they're usually in elementary schools, but they will jump in and they communicate with our school resource officers, they communicate with the school security officers, so they kind of know what's going on, and there's a lot of things that are happening, but the main thing is understand that these deputies' sole responsibilities is to make sure that that campus with your kids on it is safe.

And they pay really, really close attention to that, and it's just so many things that they have been able to do and accomplish. One I know that they've um we haven't talked about, but they even walk the campuses uh, especially when school's out, to make sure, hey, what can we do to better secure this school in a safe and make it a safer environment?

And I know that you've kind of uh work with uh Tom Martin with that, just making sure that, hey, this we could use a new door here or a new lock, just hardware stuff sometimes.

Exactly. And I think the thing that to understand here is when we talk about school safety, it's not one particular piece of equipment or one uh type of protection. It is a combination of everything that we do, that presence of those officers, us doing those walks. And there's been miles and miles of campuses walked each year.

And the reason why it's done is to know what we could do a little bit better to um really restrict the access on that campus and make students as safe as we can. You know, as a citizen of the parish, it makes me incredibly proud to when I drive down the road, I see all of the security and the individuals supporting our schools.

And I know it makes my employees feel much better because they are in a situation where, you know, think about how protective you are of your own kids. Well, they're not just their own kids, they're protective of everyone else's kids, and they've got them all in one area. So it's so important for us to feel comfortable, and this does help our employees feel comfortable.

We'll talk about something everybody loves to talk about it and and is taxes, right? Well, how are you spending your tax dollars? How are you doing this and how you doing that? Well, we uh before you were superintendent, but you were involved. I don't remember your your your actual title, but you was involved with the with Joe Murphy.

Absolutely when we sat down and came up with this plan of the school security detail. Excuse me. So you were involved in a plan of the school security detail, and one of the things that we have obviously um to back up a little bit, I went to the people, I asked y'all for you know an increase in the sales tax.

You slap me down, and I'm I'm I'm okay with that, right? Because you at the end of the day make those decisions. I just had a plan. I wanted a school resource officer at every school. That was my my plan. Well, God has a bigger plan and he's gonna make things work. So I am glad it actually failed because it would it we went back to the drawing board, we did not give up.

How can we make this work? And it it worked great. Like I was able to come up with a little money out of my budget. You did, you know, y'all did out of your budget and said, we're gonna share this. Well, in the reality of thing, the very first thing I realized is if that tax would have passed, I couldn't have hired 58 deputies to put in every school.

It'd have been almost impossible. And here we are on year, I think, four with the school security detail. Yes. And we are only covering 34 schools of the 58 with kids, I mean uh uh or 48. That's that's a lot. And but it's still a lot of weight. So things happen for a reason. You you think things out, you come up with a plan, and uh, and just because they fail doesn't mean it's over.

It means okay, go back to your drawing board, let's relook at this. And I think the way we're doing it now is much more efficient, efficient. We're doing it with a whole lot less money, and we're able to use uh a lot of these deputies, uh, some of them are retired, but very capable. Uh we have some Baton Rouge PD officers that came over, I have some state police officers that came over that that just, hey, I'm sitting at home, I'm capable, I want to help out, and uh they're able to make a little side money, and at the end of the day, our schools are safe.

And so I just want to make sure people understand this was something we put together and then we we don't ever meet what we think we're gonna spend that year. However, we've had incidents where we uh one year we were dealing with a lot of fights uh and it carried on to where we were dealing with them at some of the football games, and and it helps us to be able to put more deputies there and not really hurt my budget or your budget.

It kind of always fits into what we've already got planned. So I I think it was a great plan we came up with. I didn't think it would work as as well as it did, but it it is working, and um, and I think it's very efficient now. And again, we're we're stretching those tax dollars uh and and at the end of the day, you're getting to me even better coverage and making sure we're protecting our kids on these campuses.

I agree, and you know, the individuals in our parish they want us to make sure their kids are safe, make sure their families are safe, but they also want us to be good stewards. And I think this shows that, and I think it shows it it the way that we're pulling them in, we're bringing people in that have all different experience levels that really helps because there's a lot of a lot of experience there.

They've dealt with a lot of things and it allows us to pass that on and and make our schools uh safe. So one of the things another project that we've um or a thing that we work on together is when we receive threats. You know, we got to love social media for sure. Uh you and I deal with that quite a lot.

And there's often times where students make some sort of threat. Um you want to share kind of how we handle some of that uh some of those threats?

Yeah, you know, so so I the big thing is is we kind of talked about a little earlier too, is it's really nice to be able to get that information. And, you know, when the when we get information on a possible, you know, kid with a gun coming to school or he's gonna go, you know, set a bomb off, whatever the threat may be, no matter what time it is, and we get a lot of them after hours.

And when I say after hours, sometimes we're not talking about four or five o'clock, sometimes it's at midnight, two o'clock in the morning. We're getting up out of our beds and we're going to that house wherever that kid's located, and we're going to address uh the child, the parents, uh, grandparent, the guardian, whoever it is, and make sure we get to the bottom of it as quick as possible.

Because I know that you have a bunch of parents that's gonna find out about this. So we as we have to do it as quick as possible. Uh A, if we feel that there's a threat and we're not able to squash that, we're gonna have to shut a school down, we're gonna have to stop things, we're gonna have to do something.

So we know there's a there's a basically a ticking time clock that we gotta hurry up and get some things done as quick as possible. And and and look, you guys just jump in and help us all the time because there's a lot of times y'all have some resources too that help us uh with being able to locate kids and parents to be able to get this thing resolved.

And so it is a huge uh tool to have to be able to to to have from school resource officers, the security the the the detailed deputies, the dare officers, and and sometimes in general we had we have so many deputies. I have 420 employees, and I would have say in a high 90% of their kids go to school and lives in parent schools.

And so there's a lot of communication that goes on there as well. So we get information. You have school bus drivers that'll get information, teachers that'll send us information, kids, parents, and the biggest thing for us is and if you hear about something, please contact us. We take it seriously, we get on it right away.

What what usually happens that really I guess hurts you and I in a way of uh can complicate things is when a parent or just someone random decides to put all the details on social media before we even had a chance to check this out. Because there's a lot of times we went through an era, uh, and you remember this where they were reposting something that was posted years before, or even stuff that was posted in another count uh uh state, correct, uh county, somewhere else.

And they were, you know, creating this hype. And they wasn't the person that was posted in in in our area wasn't doing it on uh like maliciously. They actually thought it was, you know, some truth to it. And once we run it down, we say, well, this was something done in Oklahoma, they'd made us way down to Louisiana.

So so have some faith in us and work with us and and and help us to get this thing resolved because creating unnecessary chaos and worry just creates a a bigger issue. Um, and that's more can be for you dealing with, you know, again, 52 schools and and I don't know how many employees you got, it's got to be 3,500 to about 3,800.

So it's quite good. So you have all these employees, you have all these kids in school, all these parents, and it's just a lot of stuff going on, and and and one post on social media can create mass chaos, and we don't want to do that and it'd be unnecessary because the kids are losing that. And they we don't need that.

And uh and we'll I said it earlier. We have to invest in our kids, and we have an opportunity to show them how well we all work together and how things show. should be done and let's continue to do it. But I think over s through time we have educated the parents. We have educated, you know, everybody to where we don't see so much of the um people throwing out the post on social media anymore that you know kids bringing a gun to school.

We have a little bit of it, but not as bad as it was. So they are now calling us, working with us and giving us that opportunity. And it it just it it makes things so much more efficient when we can do that. And my biggest goal is if I get a call at two o'clock in the morning that we can get it resolved and the school buses are still rolling at 5 30.

And and that's that's what we we want to be able to accomplish. So that has uh been very big to be able to have the the citizens working with us and and you as well and you you and your staff just trying to work together as a team and making this work.

I agree. And I do want to reiterate that because it is it's not uncommon for us to hear something because it doesn't even have to be something that's really big. If we hear something we're going to investigate it. And you're right it might be 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, 2 o'clock in the morning is so it's not uncommon for my staff, myself and your staff to be communicating throughout that entire time because our goal is to make sure that the next day is safe.

So whatever whatever it was that we've ran it down so when kids arrive at that school there is there's no um no issues because we ran it down. Like we went to the home we have the parent meeting with the school regarding those situations. And I think that's the important piece for our our our our families to understand is when we hear it, we're going to be running it down and we want to make sure if our kids see something that they ask they say something and they let us know.

We know last year year before we made a video that to try to address some of those threats and the video was between your office and my office so that we could try to educate students and everybody in grade six through 12 across the entire Livingston parish, they see that video they sign off and that they've seen that video and we're using that as an education tool because our goal is to have our kids in school where we can work with those students because we can't teach them when they're home.

And so if we can be proactive and have them safe with us that's what we want. And so I I guess we could transition here because we want our kids in school so let's talk about truancy.

Yeah truancy was and I didn't realize truancy was such a huge issue. Jennifer Dewey will give her credit because she's done so much. She's kind of uh can be behind the scenes on things but she does so much for the school system and she uh really took this truancy and she had a partner that kind of helped her to work for here at the school system and Spencer Harris is our child welfare attendance they kind of worked hey we're going to get this thing going and we now have a deputy that's dedicated to truancy and we actually use our school resource officers and we if you remember we were using some of the school um safety detail money that we kind of had allocated for that to say listen when these

school resource officers get off of work we'll pay them start going and doing these truancies. And and that worked and and you mean you got the numbers the numbers are in very impressive and uh it's just as one of those things that we're able to uh help out. I mean I don't really want to see a principal or or or a teacher or anybody to have to go to some of these homes you know after hours or even during school hours by themselves you know it it it can be unsafe sometimes uh and so we just partnered up with you.

Y'all showed us what the need was uh we were able to make it work and uh again it's been successful.

It it look it really has and and I will be honest this year we actually have even more focus on our uh truancy in attendance uh even more this year because we were fortunate enough to get a receive some additional grant funding from the Department of Ed um in order to hire a person who focuses uh strictly on attendance.

Didn't cost us anything but it lets us add more and let us step up our game. Right. So that person's working closely with your team but over the last three years the uh sheriff's office between the sheriff's office and coordination with our office they've had over 1200 visits to well over 1200 visits to homes and of those homes when they go to them about over 53% of those students went from truant to no longer being truant because those visits and figuring out what was happening in those homes it helped.

And look those are those are positive visits. Those aren't just automatically hey we have a deputy that's going to show up those are positive visits where those deputies are going to see what can we do to help? Is there something going on? Do you have uniforms uh you know those type of things because we want to help so and those some of those visits even started this summer before school started there was deputies going to homes of some habitually truant uh students asking do you know when school starts?

What can I do to help you? Do you have your school supplies? So we're trying to be proactive there but also have that accountability piece because if students are at school right we can educate them. We know they're safe we know they're gonna be fed and our goal is to have them become productive in in our parish and that's what we want.

And you know and and and we use a lot of time with these truancies that's why we use the school resource officers we use this they have certain personality with them they already have a rapport with these kids they know who they are they're not going over there you know kicking a door in hey boy you're gonna go to school it's you know what can we do for you and we nobody knows what goes on in everybody else's home and it could be as simple as you said you may have a kid that just don't want to go to school because he can't afford a uniform and it it happens we yeah I'm I I don't want to go to school I don't have you know nice enough shoes I don't have uh you know I just don't have so no school

supplies so there's so many different things that go on behind the behind closed doors that we have to kind of sometimes get in there see what's going on see if we can redirect. So having the right person that can also understand how to mentor somebody and recognize and get that that be able to read and and you know get that information and get to where we can redirect this child is very important.

And look you you have parents that that sometimes are too proud to ask for help and you know you respect that in so many ways. But sometimes it's just let's sit down and talk about this and there's a lot of resources you can get uh let us help you and and and it works. You know it's not always a hundred percent but it's a high percentage you just shared the numbers those are phenomenal they are and you know it's working the things that we're doing is working and making things so much more efficient at the end of the day that's what we're trying to do just what you said we're creating better kids that are going to grow up become a person that has to contributes to our society and not become a nuisance

of our society.

That's exactly what we want and look this is not a you know this is not a one and done situation the things that we've talked through and that working through this is ongoing. Captain Dewey I I've spoken with her already today where she's working with a family providing some uh connecting them to some resources and not only just connecting them she's educating somebody on my team of more of those resources that are out there so that they can be spread to other individuals and I think that's the that's the key to the success of Livingston Parish is all of our entities working together using and being good stewards but doing what's right for our kids.

Right. You know we ask our parents to send their kids to us every day. I mean I was a parent you was a parent right uh that's a big deal because you're having to you're having to trust and send that person and the only way that we can ask somebody to do that is if we've put the work in and we've tried to make sure that we are creating that safe environment.

Right. So recently uh in the last legislative session there was a bill passed um on marijuana I think it was act three oh five yes um I I hate to put you on the spot but do you want to talk about anything you want to talk about that at all?

What you need to know is is that that's uh that's a a new law that's been added and if you are caught with in marijuana within two it's it's a 2,000 feet perimeter of a school and I don't have to be on campus you're within two thousand feet of that school and you're caught with marijuana you're gonna be charged and go to jail no matter the amount you you you can't have that around a school campus period.

And so you know we're we're all any in it it's the law. It's it just got passed and I think it's very important that people understand that um and it doesn't you don't have to be a a a a school a student or a child to get charged that's anybody. And one of the things that is very specific in in this law is you can't say you didn't know that you were close to a school zone that's not going to work for you.

So um I would I mean if you're gonna do it and you feel like that you're under the 14 grams and you're legal you better go on and map out Livingston Parish and where the schools are at and avoid that area because if you get pulled over in any kind of traffic stop or you get involved in a a a car crash or whatever the case may be and you're caught with marijuana within 2,000 feet of a school you're gonna go to jail.

And we're very we're real strict on that in all our our our laws when it comes to that especially anything to do with a school we're gonna protect it and uh so you know these kids are vaping have THC in their vapes all those things are going to play a role in that and we have uh already started putting that uh into play and we've had you know several arrests on on that already.

Well and and I want to stress to our students that we have this is the increased penalty on this that up to a year um in jail and a $1,000 fine that extends to our students. So when students have that on campus we have to press those charges and you know that student is automatically being charged which affects scholarships which affects future jobs.

So we want to make sure we've pushed that out to our um to our individuals in our district and we will continue to have some signage made because we want to be as proactive as possible but also that law is meant to help keep our kids safe and create a safe environment. That's right.

Well you don't need to bring any kind of drugs into a school setting and this just helps us and and law enforcement it helps you as well to to keep our schools clean, safe and uh and completely keep the drugs out of the school altogether and um again you can't even come within 2,000 feet of the school.

Exactly. And that means carpool all of that. Carpool everything. Absolutely so Sheriff Art is there uh as we get ready to to kind of wrap up is there anything else that you want to share or anything you want to tell the parents or the students?

You know the biggest thing is the parents is uh A I want to tell them I appreciate them working with us. This is a huge operation uh when I say that you have a we have a lot of school zones that go up you know in the mornings we have a lot of school zones in the evenings we have a lot of bus traffic we have a lot of carpool traffic we have a lot of things that can make us somewhat impatient um and we get that so we just ask everybody to to to try to be patient with everybody else uh put those phones down you're not supposed to be on your phone in the school zone you should be on your phone anyway period um but in today's lifestyle with these devices in our hands we are um we we just don't pay

attention like we should and it's just you're just always that split second away from a serious accident that you could unknowingly cause and you don't want to so we have to be very careful. So I always like to stress it to everybody parents just people in general pay attention we're around these especially around these school zones you have so many foot traffic you don't know when somebody's is going to get ran over.

I mean we just lost poor Miss Katie Wells uh last year at one of our school crossing guards so you know pay attention put those phones down and and just you know take a moment to to try to just do your part of being safe that makes our our roadways safer and and you just want ever I want to see everybody go home safe.

Uh I do the worst part of my job is a knock on a door and tell someone that a loved one's not coming home. That is the worst part of this job and we've done it too many times and it's just something I hope that I never have to do again unfortunately I will but I just think that we can all do better if if we if we work together.

I I think so and look I I want to you know talk to our parents and community and just uh thank the parents for trusting us and for sending those students to us each day and know that we are going to we love their kids and we want to work together and it takes the entire community for us to do that. So um I feel fortunate to be able to be in the position where I can support their students and and we're gonna do that each and every day.

So as we close out just a couple of questions for you a little rapid fire questions let let's let's see if we can't put you on the spot a little bit here. Okay. Uh so as uh so how many years have you been sheriff? I've been uh 14 years.

All right so uh you know that's a long time obviously to be sheriff for sure um is there anything that people wouldn't know about sheriff art that you can think of I don't know I mean if you read social media they know a lot more than I know you were right some of it true some of it not but if it's on social media right so uh anything that they they do not know about me I don't know pretty much an open book Jody uh that that may be a tough question that's all right well look when you are not uh when you're not receiving calls or you're on duty which I'm sure you kind of chuckle at that uh what would we find you doing?

Uh probably would find me on a tractor somewhere on my farm. I got you and this has to be a cab tractor because that's the only way I can do it because I still have to be able to answer my phone you got to be able to answer that phone because that phone calls it never stops ringing. 24-7 you have to be available.

To close out I just want to say thank you to you and your team we appreciate the hard work um it doesn't go unnoticed the I get questions from superintendents all the time from across the state saying I see what y'all are doing. How did y'all do it? We actually did a presentation at a superintendent's conference last year and we did it with a member of your team and I got quite a few questions how?

And my answer is simple everybody that's in our parish we're working to do what's best for the kids we're doing what's best for our community. So thank you please make sure you uh share those words with your team and I just want to thank our viewers out there uh and listeners for listening to this podcast and also um chevron for sponsoring the podcast and allowing us the opportunity to do so so thank you and we will see you the next time thank you

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