ST. LOUIS, Missouri — Momentum is building at City Hall to place the St. Louis sheriff under a year of heightened financial oversight, part of a broader effort to define the office’s duties and resolve a dispute over transporting sick jail inmates.
The Board of Aldermen’s Public Safety Committee voted unanimously last Thursday to advance legislation that would bar the sheriff from enforcing general criminal laws, require monthly spending reports with written justifications for every purchase, and mandate inmate medical transports.
Alderman Rasheen Aldridge said the oversight is needed “especially with the recent like spending we’ve seen in the sheriff’s office that need some corrective action.”…