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Sue Kiesewetter reports:

Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones will be the guest speaker at the March 24 meeting of the Butler County Teen Republicans.

The 3 p.m. meeting will be held at Republican headquarters, 3431 Princeton Road, Suite 100, in Fairfield Township’s Bridgewater Falls shopping complex.

All teens are invited to attend the meeting.

For more information, call 513-893-5292.

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Sue Kiesewetter reports:

Butler County sheriff’s deputies will be stopping by county schools every day beginning this week through a new initiative being launched this week to help make schools safer.

Sheriff Richard K. Jones on Monday announced the start of Operation Safe School, which is designed to have a deputy stop by any school in his or her geographical patrol area every day that school is in session.

“Sheriff Jones takes the safety of our children very seriously and will strive to maintain a safe learning environment for the citizens of Butler County,” said Lt. John A. Sons, in a statement.

Operation Safe School applies to any school – public, private by request – located in the sheriff’s jurisdiction or shared jurisdiction, said Sons, the road patrol supervisor in charge of the initiative.

“The visits will not be scheduled; they’ll be random,” Sons said. “The deputies will be stopping by every day. It’s a little bit of extra school safety.”

Lakota Schools spokesman Randy Oppenheimer said the district welcomes the sheriff’s efforts, particularly since the visits will be random.

“The presence of law enforcement in our schools is always great,” Oppenheimer said. “Sheriff Jones faces a very tough budget situation and we very much appreciate that he’s doing everything he can for schools even with limited resources.’’

The deputies would not replace school resource officers.

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West Chester based attorney Jeff Meadows and Shane Herzner make much of their living defending people who are charged with drunk driving. Now, they are are launching sales of a device that he hopes will put him out of business: a portable breath test. Photo provided.

Janice Morse reports:

Jeff Meadows, a West Chester-based attorney, earns nearly all his livelihood defending people who are charged with drunken driving.

Even Richard K. Jones, the sheriff of Butler County, where Meadows mostly practices, acknowledges: “Nobody deals in more DUIs than he does.”

But Meadows has started selling a device that he hopes will put him out of business: a portable, disposable breath test.

Called “TESTorARREST,” the device is a cigarette-sized clear plastic tube that sells for $9.99 for a two-pack. After a person breathes into the tube, a chemical inside interacts with breath alcohol. If the yellow crystals inside change to an aqua color, that indicates the person’s alcohol level exceeds 0.08, Ohio’s legal limit for drivers.

People who test over the limit may use their smart phones to access www.testorarrest.com to get “instant access to a local taxi,” Meadows said.

The device’s slogan: “If you don’t pass, stay off the gas!”

“It’s very inexpensive, costing the fraction of the price of a DUI attorney,” said Meadows, who practices with the Lyons & Lyons law firm. “A few dollars now versus a few thousand later makes it a no-brainer.”

The device is packaged with a disclaimer, telling consumers that abstaining from drinking alcohol is “the only way to be 100% certain that an individual is not impaired.” (more…)

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