 The Floyd County Sheriff's Department sat in on a conference call from the White House as they provided much-needed information on rules and obligations they must follow during this COVID-19 crisis. Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt invited me to attend this conference call and explain to me the added dangers they face while serving and protecting their citizens. I have served on the president's coronavirus task force. The secretary is actually over there right now as we speak. This is something that at the federal level we've been addressing for over two months now, but with respect to the role of law enforcement we recognize the extremely important role that you all have in the responsibilities for custodial management throughout the country. Okay yeah we've had our update this morning our conference call obviously with the Office of Health and Homeland Security and people who were briefing us weekly or morning. We've already taken some steps last week. Friday we were issued an order from the Supreme Court to limit access into our justice center. That'll minimize the obviously the efforts of spreading the COVID-19 if we were in contact with it. We transport about 20 a day from jail to court, vice versa court to jail. So we're trying to minimize that interaction and try to keep them isolated and keep from bringing something into the jail. The jail is down to zero visitations, not allowing any visitations at the jail. And you got to imagine if something was if they was to get one case then they're going to get a you know everybody there would get a case. So that'll hopefully minimize some of it and restrict a lot of the visitors from coming and going and hopefully until this can pass. It makes it even more challenging you know it's already challenging enough with the heroin and fentanyl and just every little thing in the world you know the meth and then now you got to worry about protective devices and worry about maybe coming in contact and we were talking earlier I mean even though we're Floyd County and we haven't had a case yet it's a small world when you start pinning the you know putting the needles in the in the geographical board and trying to figure out where this starts at because we all have family from all across Kentucky that come in contact with us and spread it so you could have it or have a contact with it and not know it. So we're trying to take those measures of preventing and just in case we don't want to spread it to nobody even if somebody wants to have it or get it so it's challenging every day now. There's some things we can do to minimize foot traffic coming and going but other than that we we still got to provide a service to the people we got to go out we got to answer our calls and we got to interact when we you know when it's called upon so yeah these guys still have to put themselves out there and hopefully I can my job is provide them the resources and based on these conference calls of what I need to do and what I need to provide to them and keep them safe minimize it by getting good facts listening to good source thank god we got a good governor who has been on this from day one who has given us leadership I mean daily twice daily three times a day so that's been beneficial to all of us in government we're in good hands we just got to do a few things to probably for the next couple of weeks until we see this get by or get some some something done to it to minimize it