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WATERTOWN — Pending legal action to force Jefferson County to treat inmates at its county jail for opioid use disorder will likely become a class-action lawsuit.
WATERTOWN â Jefferson County legislators on Tuesday accepted an altered version of a resolution that caused some controversy last year. At Tuesdayâs meeting of the county Finance and Rules committee, legislators voted to accept the fiscal year 2019 Operation Stonegarden grant. The Stonegarden program gives federal grant money to police departments, via county sheriffâs offices, along the U.S.âs national borders, to enhance their abilities and ultimately strengthen border security. Itâs a controversial program for the Jefferson County Board of Legislators. In July of 2...
WATERTOWN â The New York Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Unionâs National Prison Project filed suit against Jefferson County on Monday for its denial of prescribed medication to people with opioid use disorder in the county jail. The civil liberties unions, on behalf of a Watertown man identified as P.G. in court documents, filed a federal lawsuit Monday in United States District Court, Northern District of New York, against Jefferson County, county Sheriff Colleen M. OâNeill, county Undersheriff Brian R. McDermott and Mark Wilson, the facility administra...