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Residents raise concerns about deputy conduct and policing during Saline County public comment
Summary
Public commenters used the citizens input period to call attention to a past deputy stop they said involved dishonesty, tied it to broader concerns about policing and public safety, and urged accountability.
During the citizens input portion of the Aug. 12 Saline County commission meeting, several residents addressed policing and public safety concerns.
Jim Vent, who identified himself as living in Salina, raised a lengthy personal account of a traffic stop several years earlier in which he said two county deputies stopped him while he was parked legally. Vent said he later viewed video of the incident with county staff and concluded a deputy "lied to his superior." He told commissioners he was…
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