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Orange County <br />Board of Commissioners <br />Action Agenda Item Abstract <br />Meeting Date: December 15, 1998 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. S-d <br />Subject: Sheriff s Department Legal Support and <br />Classification Plan Amendment for Legal Specialist <br />Department: Sheriff's Department and Personnel Public Hearing: Yes No X <br />Budget Amendment <br />Needed: Yes No X <br />Attachment(s): <br />New Legal Specialist Class Specification <br />Information Contact: <br />Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass <br />Extension 2909 <br />Elaine Holmes, Personnel Director <br />Extension 2550 <br />Telephone Number: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 227-2031 <br />Purpose: To consider a policy change to provide for certain legal support <br />services within the Sheriffls Department and to consider an amendment <br />to the Orange County Classification and Pay Plan to establish a new <br />class of Legal Specialist at Salary Grade 69 ($31,536 - $50,143). <br />Background: Original Agreement for Legal Support Services <br />Orange County contracts with the law firm of Coleman, Gledhill & <br />Hargrave, P.C. for legal services that shall be required from time to <br />time to represent Orange County. That contract excludes the provision <br />of advice and counsel to the Sheriff in criminal actions. Specifically it <br />states: "It is expressly understood and agreed that Attorneys will not <br />provide and have not in the past provided advice and counsel to the <br />Orange County Sheriffls Department in its investigation and <br />prosecution of criminal actions. " <br />The reason Coleman, Gledhill & Hargrave does not provide legal <br />services in criminal actions is that it would represent a conflict of <br />interest for the firm to be assisting criminal defendants if it also is <br />advising the Sheriffs Department on these matters. <br />