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Waynesfield Police Department gains recertification status WAYNESFIELD — The Waynesfield Police Department has completed the Ohio Collaborative recertification process, Karhlton Moore, executive director of the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services, has announced. Recertification of the Ohio Collaborative standards takes place on a three- to four-year cycle. The standards are the first of their kind in Ohio and were developed and established by the Ohio Collaborative Community-Police Advis...

Local News Briefs: ODOT work to impact local highways Staff Report ODOT work to impact local highways  MARION - Some road construction projects are expected to affect highways in Marion County this week. All outlined work is weather permitting. Ohio 309 eastbound and westbound between Robinson Road and Ohio 37 will close starting Tuesday through April 13 for tile replacement. The detour will be Ohio 37 northbound to Ohio 67 westbound to Kenton-Marseilles Road to Ohio 309 or reverse.  U.S....

mgreier@salemnews.net SALEM TOWNSHIP — Winona Fire Chief George Brantingham is questioning whether the township paid all that was owed to his department for services last year. “We seem to have a discrepancy on what was paid to us last year,” he said. Brantingham spoke to trustees about the issue at Tuesday night’s meeting, saying the amount the Columbiana County Auditor’s Office told him didn’t match with what the township paid, alleging a shortage of $3,000. Trustees referred him ...

Shaker Heights continues Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts Updated Feb 02, 2021; Posted Feb 02, 2021 Shaker Heights Mayor David Weiss, front, took part in the June 20, 2020, march to City Hall leading up to the Unity Rally for Justice sponsored by the Minorities Together Movement in honor of people killed through police brutality. Weiss later met with the local teens who organized the event, Ethan Khorana and Madison Maynard (upper left), and announced the citys "DEI" initiative, which ...

SEAN BARRON YOUNGSTOWN — New Youngstown police Chief Carl Davis said that rebuilding greater trust and better relations between police and those in minority communities begins with what can be a painful admission. “We should acknowledge the history of racism in this country regarding how minorities have faced injustices from police,” said Davis, whom Mayor Jamael Tito Brown hired earlier this month as the city’s top law enforcement officer. Davis was among several Mahoning Valley poli...

New Bremen Police Department receives recertification Recertification takes place on a revolving, three- to four-year cycle. There are 482 agencies that are certified, and 97 that are in the process of becoming certified by meeting standards for the use of force, including deadly force, and agency recruitment and hiring. Additionally, over 29,897 officers (representing over 92 percent of all law enforcement officers in Ohio, including most of Ohio’s metropolitan areas) are employed by an agen...

Grove City planning to purchase body cameras for police officers ThisWeek group Grove City Division of Police officers are expected to wear body cameras before the end of the year. The 2021 budget City Council approved Dec. 7 includes $125,000 for the purchase of body-worn cameras. The city will purchase enough cameras to equip each of its 52 officers, eight sergeants and three lieutenants with the equipment, deputy city administrator/safety director William Vedra said. The actual cost of purc...

news@tribtoday.com NILES — The Trumbull County Educational Service Center secured a $55,400 grant that will be used to establish a new STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) program during the second semester of the 2020-21 school year. The funding was made available through the Ohio Collaborative for Educating Remotely and Transforming Schools to support schools in their efforts to improve remote learning. TCESC’s Curriculum and Instruction Department will launch the STEM program i...

Funds will establish STEM program Jan 1, 2021 NILES — The Trumbull County Educational Service Center has secured a $55,400 grant that will be used to establish a new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) program during the second semester of the 2020-21 school year. The funding was made available through the Ohio Collaborative for Educating Remotely and Transforming Schools to support schools in their efforts to improve remote learning. TCESC’s Curriculum and Instruction Depart...

No chokehold policy adopted by state advisory board COLUMBUS — Gov. Mike DeWine announced Friday a new standard of deadly force for police departments in the state. Following nationwide protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death this summer, the governor felt there was a need for conversations to unfold about policing. “George Floyd’s death is the culmination of many events,” he tweeted on May 29. “As he lay on the ground dying, he was a victim representing so many others before h...