JOHN COFFELTContributor

Coffee County Sheriff Chad Partin revealed at a recent county meeting that at the behest of the district attorney, the sheriff’s department will be taking a more visible role on the campus of the Bonnaroo Music Festival this coming year.

Partin said the county, under the direction of District Attorney General Craig Northcott, will be on the Bonnaroo grounds during the festival in June.

“(Northcott) has some concerns about enforcement, so we’re going back old school Bonnaroo,” Partin said.

Partin said the department will not be paid by the festival but will be there for enforcement.

“We are going to be visible,” he said. “Undercover stuff, we don’t do that. It’s pointless. We’re going to be there, visible and very active in drug enforcement.”

Partin said the atmosphere at Bonnaroo has changed for the better in recent years with it not being as bad as in the early years.