Tattoos bar the way for prospective Hennepin County sheriff's deputies

Ryan Stevens has two law enforcement degrees and is studying for a third as he works full time as a state-employed guard at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Faribault. But he recently was rejected for a job with the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office because the tattoos on his arms violated department policy.

By: Rochelle Olson, Minneapolis Star Tribune / MCT