Cuyahoga County’s independent watchdog files bullying complaint against chair of oversight committee Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio Cuyahoga County Council has agreed to pay $10,000 for a private lawyer to investigate a bullying complaint filed by Director of Internal Audit Monica Houston against the chairman of the committee that oversees Houston’s department.
The lawyer, to be hired by the county prosecutor’s office, will investigate the complaint against Audit Committee Chair Michael Abouserhal, who Houston accused of improperly pressuring her as an independent watchdog of county government.
Among other complaints, Houston said she “felt pressured to take action that was contrary to the findings” of an audit done on One Community, a high-speed internet provider named in subpoenas served on the county as part of an ongoing criminal investigation.
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Cuyahoga County Sheriff to release jail inmates sentenced for misdemeanors, held on parole violation to curb coronavirus outbreak
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Posted Dec 14, 2020
The Cuyahoga County Sheriff on Monday will release inmates sentenced for misdemeanor crimes and those accused of parole violations to help stem the spread of coronavirus.David Petkiewicz, cleveland.com
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Cuyahoga County’s interim sheriff on Monday released dozens of inmates serving misdemeanor jail sentences or others held on parole violations to help stop the growing spread of the coronavirus in the county jail.
Interim sheriff David Schilling in two orders one sent to municipal courts and another to the state’s prison system said the release of inmates is necessary to stop the increase in coronavirus cases among inmates and corrections officers. Schilling called the steps “unprecedented.”
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Sheriff sues state prison director over refusal to take some prisoners from Cuyahoga County Jail during coronavirus pandemic
Updated Dec 11, 2020;
Posted Dec 11, 2020
Inmates at the Marion Correctional Institution play basketball in the prison s courtyard. Cuyahoga County officials have filed a lawsuit against the state prison system over its refusal to take some inmates from the county jail during the coronavirus pandemic. [Matt Shiffler photo]
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Cuyahoga County Sheriff David Schilling and Prosecutor Michael O’Malley have filed a lawsuit asking the Ohio Supreme Court to order the state prison system to admit all inmates from the Cuyahoga County Jail who have received prison sentences after the state stopped accepting some inmates due to an earlier coronavirus outbreak within the jail in April.