County approves tribal cross-deputization agreement

Posted by John Small | Sep 9, 2020 | Main News

A cross-deputization agreement that will enable local law enforcement to continue responding to crime on Indian land was among the items of business before the Johnston County Board of Commissioners this week. Meeting on Tuesday due to Monday’s observance of the Labor Day holiday, commissioners Jacky Hallmark, Mike Thompson and T.J. Clements approved the agreement […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

County approves tribal cross-deputization agreement

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