Mountain Xpress has the story. Tidbit:
School gets back in session this week, but don’t expect to see a Buncombe County Sheriff’s Department deputy driving up to a local school in one of the department’s black-and-white cruisers to drop off a child.
That’s because the department’s policy of allowing the school drop-offs increased the county’s insurance liability and violated federal tax rules, as well as a state law banning the private use of publicly owned vehicles, an internal county audit found earlier this year. Sheriff Van Duncan, in a July memo to County Manager Wanda Greene, said he was ending what had been routine practice.
The finding was just one of several that came out of an audit undertaken in November 2008 and issued in April 2009.