{"id":4296,"date":"2011-01-04T11:57:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T19:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2011-01-04T20:32:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T04:32:43","slug":"news-brief-sheriff-snaza-officially-appoints-agency-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=4296","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Sheriff Snaza officially appoints agency leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This was updated at 12:23 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In his first day on the job, new Thurston County Sheriff John Snaza oversaw a ceremony commissioning his new command staff.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4299\" style=\"width: 163px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011.0104.john_.snaza_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4299\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4299\" title=\"Sheriff John Snaza\" src=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011.0104.john_.snaza_.png\" alt=\"2011.0104.john.snaza\" width=\"153\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thurston County Sheriff John Snaza<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They are:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Undersheriff James Chamberlain, a 35-year veteran of the sheriff&#8217;s office who was previously the operations bureau chief.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Chief Dave Pearsall who will be responsible for the field operations bureau, overseeing the patrol division and its specialty units. Pearsall, a 24-year member of the office, previously was chief of the services bureau.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Chief Brad Watkins will be in change of the support services bureau, which handles warrants, civil issues and has taken the detective division into its fold. Watkins, a 22-year veteran of the sheriff&#8217;s office was previously the undersheriff.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Chief Todd Thoma continues to head the corrections bureau<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Fiscal manager Joan Plaja continues in her position.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Executive aid Faye Burnett continues in her position.<\/p>\n<p>Chamberlain is serving temporarily as Snaza&#8217;s second in command as the undersheriff he will appoint is still employed by the Washington State Patrol, according to office spokesperson Lt. Greg Elwin.<\/p>\n<p>Capt. Tim Braniff, who works in Olympia with the state patrol&#8217;s investigative assistance division, is expected to join the sheriff&#8217; office in sometime after the beginning of February, Elwin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p>A typographical error in this news item was corrected to reflect that Chief Dave Pearsall is a 24-year member of the office, not a 24-year-old deputy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter This was updated at 12:23 p.m. In his first day on the job, new Thurston County Sheriff John Snaza oversaw a ceremony commissioning his new command staff. They are: \u2022 Undersheriff James Chamberlain, a 35-year veteran of the sheriff&#8217;s office who was previously the operations bureau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4302,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions\/4302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}