By Shirleen Guerra | The Center Square
The Arapahoe County Board of County Commissioners is taking control of the Sheriff’s office finances for overspending nearly $1 million and an alleged unauthorized transfer of $380,000 in taxpayer funds to a non-profit that the county claims was “inconsistent with state statutes.”
The non-profit was the Arapahoe County Sheriffs Office Foundation, the county told The Center Square in an email. The Arapahoe County Sheriffs Office Foundation was given its non-exempt status by the IRS in 2022, according to the website Candid.
The form the non-profit filed with the IRS – known as a 990 – didn’t list any compensation for its officers and stated that Kenneth McKlem was the secretary and treasurer and worked an average of one hour per week with the non-profit. Ken McKlem is listed as on the command staff as a bureau chief of public safety for the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Department.