Letters: Residents respond to the sheriff’s $1.7 million funding request

A cell at the Portage County Jail. Lyndsey Brennan/The Portager

Letters: Residents respond to the sheriff’s $1.7 million funding request

- Letter to the editor

Several readers wrote to The Portager responding to our June 9 article about the sheriff’s request for additional funding.

After reading the article about the jail staffing issue, I have trouble understanding how the “new sheriff in town” continues to ask for more and more and more money. He was part of the budget process, yet evidently missed critical parts that encompass running the total Portage County Sheriff’s Office.

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