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Residents and watchdogs press Clermont County commissioners over animal shelter operations and community supports
Summary
Multiple Clermont County residents criticized local animal-shelter operations, described a nuisance property with repeated police responses in Monroe Township, and raised concerns about social-service capacity during public participation at the March 12 commissioners meeting.
Several speakers at the Clermont County Board of Commissionersmeeting on March 12 used the public participation portion of the meeting to press officials on local public-safety, substance-use and animal-shelter issues.
Deanna Smith of Edinburgh Drive described a recurring nuisance property on Bethel-New Richmond Road in Monroe Township and alleged frequent police responses, drug overdoses and outstanding warrants among occupants. "They went in and arrested her soulmate ... booked him in about midnight on charges from April 2020," Smith said, describing her frustration that the suspect was released the next day on an OR bond.
Christopher Hicks, who identified himself as a resident, delivered an extended critique of the county-run animal shelter and its recent request…
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