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When taxpayer money is involved, transparency is essential [editorial]


THE ISSUE
In the Sunday LNP | LancasterOnline “Watchdog” column, reporter Carter Walker wrote about a Lancaster County constable’s private business, started at the beginning of the pandemic, which “has won most, if not all, of the lucrative no-bid contracts to provide security to facilities related to COVID-19, paid for with public funds.” Lancaster County’s 55 constables — elected officials who often serve low-level warrants and transport prisoners for the district courts — are paid per job, Walker reported.
And we can appreciate the initiative of Michael Chance, a constable from Strasburg, who says he launched his company, Constable Peace Keeping Detail LLC, to help fellow constables who were without regular work during the pandemic. ....

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Is a local elected official profiting from no-bid public contracts? [Lancaster Watchdog]


When the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, the Lancaster County courts closed their doors.
That was a blow to the county’s 55 constables — elected officials who often serve low-level warrants and transport prisoners for the district courts and are paid per job — were out of work.
A year later, one local constable s private business, which he started at the beginning of the pandemic, has won most, if not all, of the lucrative no-bid contracts to provide security to COVID-19-related facilities, paid for with public funds.
Michael Chance, a constable from Strasburg, personally stands to earn somewhere between $51,000 and $90,000 from the roughly $1 million in contracts obtained by his company, Constable Peace Keeping Detail LLC. What’s less clear is whether his clients were aware they were contracting with an individual’s company, not the association representing all constables in the county. ....

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