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DMC INVESTIGATIVE REPORT | PART 5 — Payroll, workers’ compensation and other records reviewed during the DMC’s ongoing investigation overlap with issues later addressed in a Brady notice involving the Fisher County Sheriff’s Office.

DMC INVESTIGATIVE REPORT | PART 5 — Payroll, workers’ compensation and other records reviewed during the DMC’s ongoing investigation overlap with issues later addressed in a Brady notice involving the Fisher County Sheriff’s Office.

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Follow the Money: Workers’ Comp Records and Brady Notice Converge in Fisher County

Jeff Hurt, Editor Double Mountain Chronicle and Patricia Hurt Publisher
Thursday, September 24, 2026
Worker's compensation records reviewed by the DMC overlap with issues later cited in the District Attorney’s notice involving a deputy’s pay and overtime, while Fisher County Sheriff pushes back against the DA's findings, arguing the notice stems from a misinformed, 'super-secret' process rather...
REALITY HAS NO SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

REALITY HAS NO SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

REALITY HAS NO SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

Jeff Hurt, Editor Double Mountain Chronicle
Thursday, September 17, 2026
EDITOR’S COLUMN | JEFF HURTAs you might have noticed, even if you start on the editorial page, this week’s edition of the Double Mountain Chronicle includes another installment in our continuing investigation into the Fisher County Sheriff’s Office.I will let the reporting speak for itself.
TWO FISHER COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES RECEIVED MORE THAN TWICE THEIR REGULAR PAY IN OVERTIME

TWO FISHER COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES RECEIVED MORE THAN TWICE THEIR REGULAR PAY IN OVERTIME

Fisher County paid two sheriff’s deputies $321,206 in overtime

Jeff Hurt I
Thursday, June 4, 2026
The first article in this series examined the budget record: how Sheriff’s Office overtime closed fiscal year 2025 far above the adopted overtime budget, and how the county later reconciled those lines through amendments.