Now that Governor Mike DeWine has named Deters to the Ohio Supreme Court, the longtime law-and-order prosecutor vacates his office on Jan. 7 when he is sworn in.
Ex-River City Correctional Center staff and inmates said high employee turnover, staff with active criminal cases and security problems have undermined the facility's mission for offenders.
The River City Correctional Center hired a 'resident supervisor' who was on probation for robbery. A second employee supervised inmates for three months while she had warrants for her arrest.
An Ohio mother is suing the police department charged with leading an investigation into her missing daughter who ended up dead. Latosha Bartlett-Powell
Eric Lindsay, a 60-year-old Black man, is suing West Chester police and the Meijer company after two officers stopped and 'interviewed' him as a shoplifting suspect in January 2021 despite being told the suspect they were looking for was a white man.