A story in last week’s edition of the Herald entitled ‘Tribal, city officers cross-deputized’ raised some concern that Boundary County Sheriff David Kramer was cross-deputizing federal law enforcement officers due to paragraph two’s broad definition of deputization which states:

Deputization agreements give tribal, federal, state or city law enforcement officials power to enforce laws outside their own jurisdictions regardless of the identity of the perpetrator, thus simplifying the exercise of criminal jurisdiction.

Sheriff Kramer did not cross-deputize any federal law enforcement officers. Kramer only cross-deputized Idaho certified police officers of the City of Bonners Ferry Police Department and of the Kootenai Tribal Police Department who have met the Idaho Peace Officers standards.