Drug task force to be reborn under new name

The Chambers County Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force is expected to be renewed under a new name tonight.
LaFayette and Valley city councils, as well as the Chambers County Commission, each agreed last week to amend the original agreement between the members to allow the City of Valley to break away from the task force without dissolving the group altogether.
Valley officials had announced their plans to cease participation with the task force in February. Under the original agreement, county commission attorney Skip McCoy said the withdrawal of one member would dissolve the entire group and force the remaining members to reestablish it.
The commission’s public safety committee, under McCoy’s advisement, suggested an amendment instead.
McCoy said a new agreement, allowing the task force to remain intact, should be in place after the Lanett City Council passes the same amendment at its meeting tonight.
The Chambers County Commission also meets tonight. At that meeting McCoy said he will ask for a resolution to reinstate the task force under the lead of the Chambers County Sheriff’s Department and under a new name.
By changing the name to the “Fifth Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force,” McCoy said the remaining members will be the only task force allowed in the fifth judicial circuit, which includes Randolph, Tallapoosa, Chambers and Macon counties.
He said, “it will enable us to go and help in these other areas.”