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Ohio is spending at least $3.6 million to set up coronavirus vaccine signup system: Capitol Letter
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
Posted Feb 25, 2021
Cleveland Metropolitan School District specialist Scherhera Shearer gets her first round of the COVID-19 vaccine on Feb. 9. Ohio is expected to soon have a one-stop website to sign up for shots. (Joshua Gunter/cleveland.com)Joshua Gunter, cleveland.com
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Contractual obligations: Ohio is paying at least $3.6 million to Accenture to develop the statewide coronavirus vaccine signup, after a system developed for the federal government was not able to work for Ohio, state officials told Laura Hancock. The cost may go up if Ohio adds additional services and as more people schedule appointments, since the contract only covers 1 million people.
YOUNGSTOWN The Youngstown Police Department has written a new policy “to emphasize the Youngstown Police Department’s commitment to fair and bias-free treatment of all people.”
The department already had “multiple rules” that prohibited biased policing, but the new policy takes that another step, said Lt. Brian Butler, the department’s head of internal affairs.
Butler said the effort is part of the certification process through the Ohio Collaborative Community-Police Advisory Board, which works in partnership with the Ohio Department of Public Safety to certify police departments in policing standards.
The Youngstown Police Department is among the 59 percent of departments in Mahoning County in some phase of certification.
The Ohio Department of Public Safety has recently received reports of a possible scam being perpetrated on Ohioans from scammers claiming to be from Ohio Homeland Security.
Ohio residents have reported receiving phone calls from scammers claiming to be from OHS and informing the call recipients that their identity had been stolen. Caller ID on these calls indicate the calls originated from the OHS main line 614-387-6171, but they did not. The OHS main line was spoofed, which is when a caller deliberately falsifies the information transmitted to a caller ID display to disguise their identity.
Ohio Homeland Security, a division of the Ohio Department of Public Safety, does not investigate personal identity theft and would not make these kinds of phone calls to Ohio residents.