Summit County Ohio Meth Task Force wants to create a Meth Lab database on the Internet
July 25, 2008
More than 30 meth labs have been found in Summit County since the beginning of 2008. None of them are included on the DEA’s National Clandestine Lab Registry. In fact, none of the meth labs found in Summit County since October 2007 are listed there either, a concern that many counties across the country, share with Summit County.
The Summit County Methamphetamine Property Awareness Task Force sees that gap of information as a threat to the health and safety of anyone who may be renting or buying a property in Summit County. Renters and buyers in Summit County, they fear, may assume that if a property isn’t on the DEA’s meth lab registry, then it doesn’t exist. Acting on that assumption, the possibility of them renting or buying a property that was a meth lab increases. Not all sellers or landlords will volunteer that information with renters or buyers, knowing that in all likelihood it will be a deal breaker.
The Summit County Methamphetamine Property Awareness Task Force says the meth lab problem is alive and well there, as evidenced by the almost daily busts and tipsters calls they receive. Naturally, they wish that weren’t the case, but it is a fact they feel that renters and buyers shouldn’t be in the dark about. They have requested that the County create it’s own online database, which they would like to see updated soon after police report to the Sheriff’s office that they have made a meth lab bust.
The Ohio Summit County Council must now approve the recommendations of the Task Force. Jon Poda, who led the Task Force will ask the council for its approval at their August 4th meeting. I, for one, am keeping my fingers crossed that it will get approved.
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