Future Of HRC Director Unclear

@hefner: Yes, EX-OC Deputy Sheriff Steven Bowers hiding out before the CONSOL’s BWC Portal in Marshall County backed-up in the weeds in a patrol car on the right side going out across the road from the pre-school, right were the low water rapids start, He used to get asked why he was there and would chase off fisherman and anyone else, and later that person would be getting arrested, ticketed or fined. Child Molester and every badges buddy until after 12 years on the OC force, was caught with his hands down a little child’s pants in Moundsville. Police wouldn't listen here in the OC.

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Kinda fast an loose with the statistics in this article. 3,000 complaints and 10% go to hearing. Based on this the Wheeling Human Rights Commission conducted 300 hearings last year. Really??? I bet it is much closer to zero. Then again these are 3,000 phone calls?? Don't have to go to Charleston to call there. I would rather see the health right get money to help sick people than this organization get money to duplicate what the state already does.

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Wvuthinking: You are one slanderous girl. I suppose you can tell all the readers about the complaint the police were informed of and then they passed that information on the alleged abuser? What BS. You sound like a girl that needs a human rights commission if for nothing else than to tell stories to.

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Just as long as there is a record of complaint, it's admissible in a Court Of Law. The Police (local) sometimes won’t or wouldn’t take a complaint (speaking about incidents years ago, don’t know about now, I don’t use local Law-Enforcement); they have been known back then to dismiss your concerns and tell the abuser of your attempt to file a complaint against them; a very dangerous way to protect a badge buddy. Any thoughts of a small L/E Internal Affairs Division to work with Ms. Garrett?

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3,000 Complaints! How many were solved to satisfaction? Can these be documented? Get rid of the d### thing and quit trying to justify this office.

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Several years ago, you also wrote and signed (forged) the names of unsuspecting people on a petition and implicated Mr. Jones and his family. You should be in prison, and I'm glad that Mr. Jones seen what type of lowlife, unscrupulous person he was involved with on that committee.

“YOU RESEARCHED NOTHING HEFNER, QUIT LYING".

FACT: "ONCE THE CATS OUT OF THE BAG YOU’LL PAY H*LL GETTING IT BACK IN”!!

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Ms. Garret said she received 3,000 complaints in a year. Seems a bit of an exaggeration to me. 52 weeks in a year each with a two-day weekend for 104 days. At least 8 holidays a year, now we're at 112 days. Two weeks vacation (minimum) for ten more days and a total of 122 days out of the office. 365 minus 122 equals 243 days per year to log 3,000 complaints, more than ten per day. Wheeling's population is what, 26,000? That translates into an average of 8.67 complaints per person! I don't think so.

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The State offers the same program and 99.9% of the work is telephone related. Several years ago I checked the activities of this program which consisted of going to luncheons.

What do you see as human rights abuses?

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The reigning (past and present) governmental abuses of Basic Human and Civil RIGHTS in Wheeling and the State of WV and it’s citizenry are well documented, any help is welcomed and this program should by NO means be abandoned.

@ Hefner what duties of Office or Program have been duplicated or are in your mind seem repetitious of another public accessible program?

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This department should have been dissolved years ago, but I doubt anyone on the city council has the courage to tell the City Manager to pull the plug. This is a worthless duplication of services

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