Middlesex County Sheriff David Bushey requested funding from the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) to hire two additional deputies to the Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) staff to counter the workload caused by Bethpage and Grey’s Point campgrounds during their camping seasons.
At a budget work session on Monday, March 25, with MCBS, Sheriff Bushey said that during the months the campgrounds are open (April through the Urbanna Oyster Festival in November) dispatcher emergency calls double and are resulting in times when there are no deputies on the roads to respond to other emergencies.
