Sheriffs respond to stay-at-home order

With the advent of Gov. Mike Parson’s stay-at-home order starting Monday, two local sheriffs weighed in on how they plan to enforce the new order. They also attempted to dispel some myths and misinformation.

With St. Francois County already adopting a similar order that started Friday, Sheriff Dan Bullock said, nothing has really changed for his department.

“It pretty well coincides with what the county has set down anyway,” he said. “We’re just discouraging people from going out with unnecessary travel. Get your necessities, stay home as much as you can.

“We are telling people, if you want to go out and do stuff, do it and keep ‘social-distancing’. We had some problems on the lakes because they wouldn’t let them gang up on the parks, so they went out in their boats and tied the boats together and had a party out in the middle of the lake.”