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Residents Press Commissioners on ICE Partnerships and Lack of Secular Homeless Shelter; Sheriff Defends Task-Force Model
Summary
Speakers at Clermont County’s Feb. 4 meeting urged officials to end county participation in ICE-related enforcement and establish a secular homeless shelter; Sheriff Sherry Stratton responded, denying mass '287(g)' raids and outlining the office’s coordination with prosecutors and neighboring counties.
Several residents used the public-comment period at the Feb. 4 meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of Clermont County to raise concerns about the county's cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and the absence of a secular homeless shelter.
Jen of Union Township told the commissioners she disputed characterizations from the prior meeting about a county partnership with ICE and said homelessness in Clermont County is driven by poverty. “When that time ends, the people are out whether the temperature is 6 degrees below or not,” she said, arguing the county needs a…
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