As soon as it disappeared, the Chase County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page is operating again.
Sheriff Jacob Welsh says the page was reported as an “imposter” page in late April, prompting Facebook to take down the page and keep it down despite an initial request to review the findings. The page was returned online by May 6.
Sheriff Jacob Welsh believes artificial intelligence was behind the first review request being denied almost immediately after it was submitted. The office worked with a Facebook staffer to get the page back in front of the public.
The page has already been busy, highlighting a culvert replacement project with related detours south of Council Grove next month and a missing livestock report after four heifers and three cows disappeared from the Kansas Turnpike Flint Hills cattle pens exit around April 30. The cows from two different owners are either black or black with white faces. The cows are branded on the right hip, while the heifers are not branded. Residents with information are asked to call the Kansas Department of Agriculture’s Livestock and Brand Investigation Unit, either at 785-207-8733 or 785-338-0554.
