More local members of law enforcement are getting vaccinated for COVID-19.
Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw tells me they did a survey recently, only asking whether or not employees has received the vaccine.
"I think we're, agency-wise, approaching between 50 and 60 percent which is good. We'd like to be up to 75 percent because then we could say as an agency we had the herd immunity."
The sheriff says regardless of what happens, the deputies working in the jails will continue wearing masks on the job.
"We're dealing with people that we have no idea whether they've gotten vaccinated or not. Generally we find that the people that we take into custody, they're just not medically taken care of as good as the general public to start with."
Bradshaw expressed concerns back when only older Floridians were eligible for the vaccines because a majority of his deputies on the road and in the jails are under the age of 40.
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