The board charged with overseeing the troubled Knox County juvenile detention center likely will remain in place for an additional six months.
Members of the newly formed detention center board will ask the Knox County Commission to pause its decision to turn the facility over to the sheriff’s office after just five months under an interim leader. Board members want more time to assess what’s best for the teen facility, especially in light of a damning new state report detailing the problems there.
“We want to do it right. We don’t want to do it fast,” detention center board chair and Knox County Commissioner Larsen Jay said. “We also learned a tremendous amount of (things) that we didn’t know six months ago when we started this ordinance and this process.”…