Law enforcement is hoping social media can help track down the owner of a cow recently added to Hand County?s lost and found list.
"It is the first time I've put a cow on Facebook," Hand County Sheriff Doug DeBoer said.
The cow showed up in a resident's pasture who couldn't tell you where it came from. But the background behind that Facebook post goes well beyond the cow.
"In December, we had a disaster drill as part of our emergency management program and afterwards, we critiqued that and found one of the things we lacked was an effective way to communicate," DeBoer said.
Miller, the county seat, has a weekly newspaper and events in Hand County aren't always big enough to make the evening news. But the area has faced flash flooding and other situations within the past year where the public needed information quickly.
"That's when we turned to social media to deliver those messages to those people and we had good results from it," DeBoer said.
The sheriff is hoping for favorable results with the cow owner search too. With people making funny comments on the Facebook post, he realizes some find it humorous. But he's just happy to see the post has gotten so much attention.
"We're seeing how this message can multiply and the people that it can reach and so if we need to find somebody as opposed to something, it's proving to us that it's an effective way to communicate with our people," DeBoer said.
The county had cows show up in the past and never found the owner. The sheriff says it was hard on the people whose pasture they came to so he's hoping social media will help speed up the search process.
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