Summit County Ohio agrees to set up an online meth lab database
August 25, 2008
Akron - The Methamphetamine Property Awareness Task Force and the Summit County Council have joined hands to help combat methamphetamine. On August 11, 2008, the Council agreed to adopt the recommendations made by the Meth Task Force to a county-wide system of identifying meth labs.
Law enforcement agencies will now submit a nationally recognized form from the El Paso Intelligence Center to the Summit County Sheriff’s Office when they discover a meth lab. The information on those forms will then be entered in to a county-wide online database by the Sheriff’s office. The website will list property that has been used to make methamphetamine as well as property that has been used to store or dispose of meth components, by-products, or meth lab waste products. The web site will also contain other resources and information that will be maintained by task force members and members of the Council.
The Council will also ask the state and federal governments to establish meth lab cleanup guidelines so they can establish policies involving meth lab cleanup and public health issues.
Source: Folkerth, Kathleen, “Meth task force recommendations adopted”, 8/14/08, accessed 8/25/08, http://www.akron.com/akron-ohio-community-news.asp?aID=3173
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One Response to “Summit County Ohio agrees to set up an online meth lab database”
What do you think?
I think, no, I know, all Summit County Council has to do is pass Legislation regarding ‘clean up’ of Meth labs in accordance w/the EPA and DEA ‘clean up’ guidelines identified on their websites, putting the ‘clean up’ process in place for Summit County officers and the State will follow, as will other Counties.
Until such time, Summit County doesn’t have a leg to stand on requesting the State to do it’s job. More specifically, if Summit County did this, Summit County could bypass the State and apply for Federal DEA/EPA buget appropriations for ‘clean up’ costs including specialized professional protectice equipment for our officers.
How do I know this, because I’m working w/our local Chief in a proposal of a municipal ‘clean up’ ordinance, requesting the County to follow suit, then the State and, if the State refuses, we’ll use the strategy of going to the DEA/EPA to request Federal appropriations as I suggested. It’s real simple!