JONESBORO — The Clayton County Board of Commissioners removed a proposed ordinance from the consent agenda Tuesday that could have enabled the highest ranking official in a county office to fill a vacant position.
The change, for example, would have allowed Chief Deputy Levon Allen with the Sheriff’s Office, to become sheriff until a special election is held in March.
While Allen was recently promoted to chief deputy, Chief Deputy Roland Boehrer remains interim sheriff. However, Boehrer is set to retire at the end of the year, which would make Allen the highest ranking official at the CCSO.
Some in the community speculated the move was an attempt to place Victor Hill’s pick as the next sheriff.
Hill was suspended last year when he was indicted on federal charges of depriving jail detainees of their civil rights with the use of a restraint chair. In…
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