County Collectors Meet in Craighead County

County Clerks meet in Craighead County

County clerks met in Jonesboro/ Craighead County Sept. 19-20, 2019, for their fall conference. Attendees were updated on elections, filing for office procedures, best practices for election security, levee district reporting, voting machines and more. Also, Secretary of State John Thurston swore in the new slate of 2020 association officers. Secretary of State John Thurston stands with association President, Little River County Clerk Deanna Sivley; Vice President, Cross County Clerk Melanie Winkler; 2nd Vice President, Saline County Clerk Doug Curtis; Secretary, Faulkner County Clerk Margaret Darter; AAC Board member, Polk County Clerk Terri Harrison; Treasurer, Randolph County Clerk Rhonda Blevins; at-large members Greene County Clerk Phyllis Rhynes and Cleveland County Clerk Jimmy Cummings. Not pictured: AAC Board member, Clark County Clerk Rhonda Cole.

Arkansas Association of County Clerks’ President and Boone County Clerk Crystal Graddy (right) chats with Benton County Clerk Betsy Harrell, Benton County Elections Administrator Dana Caler and Benton County Chief Deputy Clerk Tiffany Underwood.

Pictured are Pope County Clerk Pam Ennis, Hot Spring County Deputy Clerk Patty Griggs and Pope County Chief Deputy Clerk Karri Warren. Jefferson County Chief Deputy Clerk Tiffany Lowery speaks with State Board of Election Commissioners Director Daniel Shults.

Above left: AAC Legal Counsel Lindsey Bailey speaks. Above: Secretary of State’s Office Director of Elections Leslie Bellamy gives an elections update. Left: Mississippi County’s Clerk Janice Currie, Chief Deputy Clerk Martha Best and Deputy Clerk Tiffany Baker pose for a photo.

AAC Risk Management Fund

61 Member Counties Strong!

The AAC Risk Management Fund program offers General Liability, and Auto and Property Protection. The fund is managed by a board of trustees comprised of your county colleagues. As a member, you help develop the fund’s products to meet the needs of our unique and valued county resources and employees. Our latest added benefit is the Justice Bridge video/audio communication system for law enforcement, prisons and the judiciary.

AACRMF benefits continue to STRENGTHEN the program and SAVE counties across the state hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Other AACRMF benefits

Justice Bridge

This innovative program is a simple video/audio communication system for use in circuit and district courts, sheriff’s offices, inmate box portals, and state prisons. Benefits include: n Reduced inmate transports to court hearings. n Reduced liability due to vehicular accidents, inmate assaults and medical costs. n Reduced contraband in prisons. n Reduced escape potential; increased public safety.

Codification of county ordinances

n A single-bound volume of your substantive county ordinances gives you easy access.

Drug testing

n Free CDL drug testing with participation in the RMF Auto Program.

Partnership with Metro

n Your peace of mind partnership for emergency claim services. RMF members receive priority response with participation in the Property Program.

Guardian Inmate tracking system

n 20x faster and more defensible than barcode. n Exclusively endorsed by the National Sheriffs’ Association since 2008, the first product in the world to earn this distinction. n The only Inmate Management System in the world that exclusively leverages radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology. n GUARDIAN RFID® Mobile™ is the most widely used mobile app in corrections, actively deployed in 25 states.

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