AG program not coming to Mahoning County

May 29, 2012 at 4:24p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — To much fanfare because of brutal murders on the city’s South Side, Attorney General Mike DeWine announced a year ago that a program offering those with criminal warrants a chance to have their cases adjudicated at a community church was coming to the Mahoning Valley.s

While Fugitive Safe Surrender programs will be in Trumbull and Columbiana counties July 26 to 28, there won’t be one in Mahoning County.

Youngstown Municipal Clerk of Courts Sarah Brown-Clark said she and Judge Elizabeth A. Kobly felt they should have been asked by the attorney general’s office for input in organizing and planning the event.

Brown-Clark and Judge Kobly are vital to the success of the program, DeWine said, and without them it can’t be done.

“I’m disappointed, not upset,” DeWine said. “I know we can do a lot of good here.”

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