Decals reading “In God We Trust” have been placed on 30 marked patrol cars of the Ector County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Mark Donaldson announced Friday.

Sheriff’s jail vans and animal control vehicles also will come adorned with the decals as other law enforcement agencies around the state have done, Donaldson said.

Donaldson said it was his idea to place the decals on patrol cars at a total cost of about $100.

“We started looking at it,” Donaldson said. “I’ve been thinking about it over a month.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a Nov. 4, 2015, opinion that placing the decals on patrol cars would not violate the constitutional clause separating church and state because it is a “passive use of a motto steeped in our nation’s history that does not coerce citizen approval or participation.”

Rank and file members of the Ector County Sheriff’s Office are supportive of the move, Donaldson said, adding they are in agreement with having the decals displayed on patrol cars.

“Yeah. We love it,” Donaldson said. “We have no problem.”

Odessa Mayor David Turner said Friday that he was generally supportive of the idea but stressed he would need to confer with the Odessa City Attorney and publicly discuss placing such religious decal on city-owned vehicles with the city council.

“I’m in favor of it,” Turner said. “But that is maybe something the council would also have to look at.”