ALLEN COUNTY, OH (WLIO) - The NAACP Lima Chapter will continue their push for the Allen County Sheriff's Office to purchase body cameras.
The NAACP met with the Allen County Commissioners on Thursday and learned that a request for funding specifically for body cameras was never submitted by the Allen County Sheriff's Office. In addition, a request will have to be made to the Allen County Commissioners before any action can be taken. Ron Fails, the president of the Lima NAACP, says that they learned valuable information in this meeting, all in an effort to get more transparency from the sheriff's office.
"I found out today there's been no funding request and we know now how the process works so we'll go back to the sheriff's department and will take that discussion off the table because until you make a request you can't say that that request will not be honored. They could very well meet the budgetary needs of equipping the force with body cameras if they're asked.
Fails says that they plan to meet with Allen County Sheriff Matt Treglia to discuss the next steps in the process.
