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Resolutions part 4 - The sheriff makes his move, the first story breaks
In the middle of an investigation into Butler County’s dealings with Resolutions, Community Solutions — indeed, in the middle of the night — Sheriff Richard K. Jones abruptly closed the minimum security jail.
Here is the story about that, in which the sheriff said he closed the jail and relocated roughly 300 prisoners to give county commissioners more leeway in their negotiations with Resolutions.
I didn’t ask in the following press conference whether the utility payments and other issues were part of his decision, because I didn’t want to tip off the half-dozen other media outlets there. But I asked the sheriff’s office chief deputy later, and he said it was one of the many factors.
I didn’t mention it in the story that ran the next day, either, because there were still some pieces missing. I only had a couple of the pieces of the sizable public records request I had put in with the county.
But now the cat was out of the bag. We had to act on what we had before other media caught wind of it.
Up until this point, I have been bringing you up to speed on where we’re at now. The story behind the story, as I said in my original post on this issue.
Tomorrow, I’ll start posting the other information we have received as part of this public records request.
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