The following are mugshots of individuals arrested on a variety of charges in April by local authorities in Northeast Tennessee. 
 
 The following are mugshots of individuals arrested on a variety of charges in April by local authorities in Northeast Tennessee. 
 
 The following are mugshots of individuals arrested on a variety of charges in April by local authorities in Northeast Tennessee. 
 
 The following are mugshots of individuals arrested on a variety of charges in April by local authorities in Northeast Tennessee. 
 
 Several viewers asked us to investigate some of the agency's trips, so our Community Watchdog started asking questions and requesting documents months ago. 
 
 Several viewers asked us to investigate some of the agency's trips, so our Community Watchdog started asking questions and requesting documents months ago. 
 
 Several viewers asked us to investigate some of the agency's trips, so our Community Watchdog started asking questions and requesting documents months ago. 
 
 Several viewers asked us to investigate some of the agency's trips, so our Community Watchdog started asking questions and requesting documents months ago. 
 
 More than a dozen law enforcement officers, including 11 in North Carolina, have been arrested in a government sting that included the FBI, the government announced last week. WRAL-TV reported on Wednesday that each of the NC officers who were indicted have since confessed, according to prosecutors. 
 
 More than a dozen law enforcement officers, including 11 in North Carolina, have been arrested in a government sting that included the FBI, the government announced last week. WRAL-TV reported on Wednesday that each of the NC officers who were indicted have since confessed, according to prosecutors. 
 
 More than a dozen law enforcement officers, including 11 in North Carolina, have been arrested in a government sting that included the FBI, the government announced last week. WRAL-TV reported on Wednesday that each of the NC officers who were indicted have since confessed, according to prosecutors. 
 
 More than a dozen law enforcement officers, including 11 in North Carolina, have been arrested in a government sting that included the FBI, the government announced last week. WRAL-TV reported on Wednesday that each of the NC officers who were indicted have since confessed, according to prosecutors. 
 
 In a new round of tests that crashed seven popular mid-size SUVs, the Nissan Murano came out on top. The tests were conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. 
 
 In a new round of tests that crashed seven popular mid-size SUVs, the Nissan Murano came out on top. The tests were conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. 
 
 In a new round of tests that crashed seven popular mid-size SUVs, the Nissan Murano came out on top. The tests were conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. 
 
 In a new round of tests that crashed seven popular mid-size SUVs, the Nissan Murano came out on top. The tests were conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. 
 
 The following are mugshots of individuals arrested on a variety of charges in May by local authorities in Northeast Tennessee. 
 
 The following are mugshots of individuals arrested on a variety of charges in May by local authorities in Northeast Tennessee. 
 
 The following are mugshots of individuals arrested on a variety of charges in May by local authorities in Northeast Tennessee. 
 
 The following are mugshots of individuals arrested on a variety of charges in May by local authorities in Northeast Tennessee. 
 
 School officials told Herrell that while the dated lunch meat was not served at Joseph Rogers, the lunch meat was served to students at Cherokee High School last week. 
 
 When the complaint was brought to the attention of Hawkins County Director of Schools Steve Starnes last Thursday, he said they took immediate action and looked into the claim. 
 
 Hawkins County Commissioner Michael Herrell said he received a picture of the expired lunch meat from someone at Joseph Rogers Primary School. 
 
 Meat dating back as far as 2009 with what was described as a horrible smell was served to Hawkins County students just last week. 
 
 Hawkins County Commissioner Michael Herrell said he received a picture of the expired lunch meat from someone at Joseph Rogers Primary School. 
 
 The county reportedly told Herrell that the meat was not served at Joseph Rogers, but said it was served at other schools. 
 
 Herrell said anyone who knows anything about pork, knows it's like fixing chicken, “ you've got to get it, fix it and be done with it.” 
 
 But as Herrell learned late last week, there was pork in schools throughout the county that dated back to 2009. 
 
 “Here in Hawkins County, we have a lot of kids that go to school and that might be the only meal they get all day long. It just upsets me that these kids are going to school to get that meat,” Herrell said. 
 
 School officials told Herrell that while the dated lunch meat was not served at Joseph Rogers, the lunch meat was served to students at Cherokee High School last week. 
 
 Herrell said a cafeteria worker inside the high school told him “that it smelled so bad they made gravy to put over the meat.” 
 
 He said Cherokee is not the only school he's heard where the out-of-date meat was served. 
 
 “I heard that McPheeter's Bend, cooked the meat there (and) that the smell was so bad the school had the smell all through the school,” Herrell said. But, the principal at McPheeter's Bend contacted News Channel 11 Thursday morning and said that information was not correct. 
 
 When the complaint was brought to the attention of Hawkins County Director of Schools Steve Starnes last Thursday, he said they took immediate action and looked into the claim. 
 
 “There was some meat that was in our freezers with dates of 2009, 2010, 2011,” Starnes said. 
 
 An inventory of all food served to students will be taken throughout the school system and some new ground rules will be put in place, which will include cafeteria managers notifying child nutrition supervisors of any food in the school that's within three months of the labeled expiration date. 
 
 School board leaders want to address the situation and make sure this does not happen again. There will be a meeting open to the public at the Charles A. Fuller Board Room, known to locals as the 'bus depot'. It's located at 1722 East Main Street in Rogersville, TN. 
 
 Copyright 2015 WJHL. All rights reserved. ||||| ROGERSVILLE (WATE) – The Hawkins County school system is responding to the revelation that children were served old meat at school cafeterias. The meat had been in the freezer for several years before being served last week. It’s not clear if it was tainted. 
 
 Michael Herrell is a concerned parent and Hawkins County commissioner. He received a picture on Thursday of pork roast from a cafeteria cook at Joseph Rogers Primary School, the only school in the county that didn’t serve the pork roast to students that had a date from 2009. 
 
 “They go to school, and that might be the only meal they get all day long, and it just very upsets me that these kids are going to school to get that meal. It just didn’t go over well with me when I heard we were feeding these kids meat that’s dated 2009,” said Herrell. 
 
 Herrell says a cook at Cherokee High School also told him the meat was bad, but was told by the manager to cover it with gravy to give it a better taste. 
 
 The USDA guidelines for quality and taste for roast are between four and 12 months. Steve Starnes, Hawkins County director of schools, says they plan to follow these guidelines and implement new procedures. 
 
 “We also began inventory on all of our frozen food items to make sure. We’re not only going to be incorporating the package date, but also the delivery date on our inventory items to make sure we know exactly when those items came in,” said Starnes. 
 
 Starnes also says from this point on, each school will have random inspections quarterly. He says inspections will take place at two schools at a time to make sure inventory is running properly and this incident doesn’t happen again. 
 
 Starnes says he’s unsure how meat that old was still in all schools freezer, but inventory started Wednesday, checking all frozen food items. He also says there have been no complaints of any student getting sick ||||| School officials for a Tennessee county school district said they are trying to figure out why meat that was frozen more than five years ago was served to students at multiple schools. 
 
 A pork roast was served at schools in Hawkins County on April 22, even though it was frozen in 2009, a county official said. 
 
 Steve Starnes, the school director for Hawkins County told ABC affiliate WATE-TV in Knoxville that the school was now running inventory on food to ensure no years-old meat will be served again. 
 
 "We also began inventory on all of our frozen food items to make sure. We're not only going to be incorporating the package date, but also the delivery date on our inventory items to make sure we know exactly when those items came in," Starnes told WATE-TV. 
 
 According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as long as the meat remained entirely frozen it can be safe to eat indefinitely. 
 
 “Food stored constantly at 0 °F will always be safe,” the USDA reports on their website. “Only the quality suffers with lengthy freezer storage. Freezing keeps food safe by slowing the movement of molecules, causing microbes to enter a dormant stage.” 
 
 For quality and taste reasons pork roasts should be thawed and eaten within four to 12 months, according to the USDA. 
 
 Starnes told WATE-TV he wasn't sure why the meat from 2009 had been served at multiple schools and that schools would now be inspected quarterly to ensure food quality. 
 
 Michael Herrell, a county commissioner, said he was alerted to the use of the years-old frozen meat after the husband of a cafeteria worker sent him a picture of the thawed meat that was dated 2009 and served on April 22. Herrell told ABC News today that he brought up the issue with a local principal and then the school director because he was acting as a concerned parent. 
 
 "Students in Hawkins County -- that one meal makes a difference in their day," said Herrell, referring to the fact that the county is not affluent and many students rely on free or reduced lunch at school for their nourishmen. He explained he was concerned that younger children wouldn't be able to tell if something was amiss with the food. "These smaller kids ... they think it's alright if they're being served," Herrell said. 
 
 No students had been reported ill due to the meat, Starnes told WATE-TV. He did not immediately respond to requests for further comment from ABC News. 
 
 Herrell said his children didn't eat the pork roast served at their middle school and high school that day, and that despite the incident, he expects to allow his children to eat the school cafeteria food in the future. 
 
 "I think it will get fixed," Herrell said, noting that he hopes ingredients "don't fall through the crack again."
– If the Hawkins County school system in Tennessee had kept its meat in the freezer much longer, the meat might have been older than some of the students it was served to. The county says it's changing its procedures after students at many schools were served pork roast that turned out to have been frozen in 2009, ABC News reports. The US Department of Agriculture says it's safe to keep frozen meat almost indefinitely—though taste and quality will go downhill after four months to a year. According to WJHL, some cafeteria workers say the elderly lunch meat served up to students smelled so bad it stunk up entire schools, and cooks had to slather the meat in gravy to disguise its age. County officials say they're now carrying out an inventory to make sure no old meat is still lurking in school freezers. County Commissioner Michael Herrell went to officials after a cafeteria cook sent him a picture of the meat served on April 22, WATE reports. Herrell says the poor-quality meat is especially upsetting because it's a poor area where many kids get free or discounted meals and some rely on cafeteria food for nutrition. "They go to school, and that might be the only meal they get all day long, and it just very upsets me that these kids are going to school to get that meal," he tells WATE. "It just didn't go over well with me when I heard we were feeding these kids meat that's dated 2009." He tells ABC he worries that younger kids wouldn't be able to tell if there was something wrong with the food they were served. No illnesses have been reported related to the incident. (You won't find any meat, frozen or otherwise, at America's first all-vegan school.)