LABOR: Was a favor performed?

Dear Sheriff Watson;

A couple of days ago, I noticed a van marked with your inmate worker program headed in and out of Sanders Beach on the 14th Street entrance two days in a row. Thursday, I noticed the ground in front of the mansions was scrubbed clean of winter debris while the public beach side was still covered with the washings of the lake over the winter.

There is the appearance of impropriety. Is there a connection between these two facts?

VERMONT TROTTER

Coeur d'Alene