Mahoning commissioners endorse plan to bring back laid-off deputies

June 30, 2010 at 5:51p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County commissioners have endorsed the sheriff’s application for $2,112,054 in federal money to enable the recall of 14 of 65 sheriff’s deputies laid off in early June because of the county’s budget crunch.

The application is being made to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Community-Oriented Policing Services office for a three-year federal grant beginning in 2011.

Sgt. William Cappabianca of the sheriff’s department said the commissioners have agreed to fund those 14 deputy positions for a fourth year as a condition of the DOJ grant.

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