The Yazoo County Sheriff’s Department has been awarded a grant to receive financial assistance through the Mississippi Alcohol Counter Measure and Impaired Driving Grant.
Deputy Jackie Hudson, with the Yazoo County Sheriff’s Department, appeared before the Yazoo County Board of Supervisors last week to share the department’s good news. The grant, administered through the Mississippi Highway Patrol, will provide Yazoo County with $15,054 to cover the overtime of the participating deputies.
“But it is a conditional grant,” added Hudson. “They approved us on a conditional level because of the DUI grant. During a previous administration, we lost that grant with some auditing problems. We received this grant on a conditional level.”
Those conditions include properly submitted paperwork met on deadlines every four quarters.
“If I don’t submit the paperwork or meet their deadlines, they can put it at any time,” Hudson said. “But that is not going to happen.”
The reimbursement grants also stipulates that local deputies must conduct 12 checkpoints and six patrol saturations within a year. Local deputies must also participate in Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaigns, including on Christmas, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Superbowl.
Hudson said the grant would run from Oct. 1, 2025 until Sept. 20, 2026.
County leaders approved the grant conditions, accepting the new program into the sheriff’s department.
