Jackson council to vote on cross-boundary policing agreement June 15

Jackson’s Town Council is set to approve a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that lets Jackson Police Department officers help the Teton County Sheriff’s Office in unincorporated Teton County when certain conditions apply, like a sheriff’s request, an emergency with “immediate threat of serious bodily injury or death,” or fresh pursuit from town into the county agenda packet.

One line parents may want to read closely, the agreement says a School Resource Officer assigned to Jackson Hole High School would also be assigned to the sheriff “for the limited purpose of assisting with law enforcement” on the high school property south of High School Road, and it spells out who covers costs if equipment is damaged outside town limits agenda packet.