County attorney advises against suspending clerk

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. County commissioners do not have the means to compel Clerk of Court Kirk Reams to resign from office, nor do they have cause at the present time to request that the governor remove him. This basically was the advice of County Attorney Scott Shirley to the Jefferson County Commission on Thursday evening, April 21. Shirley’s report was in response to the commission’s instructions from an earlier meeting that he research the governor’s statutory author