Here is today's news on mymix1041.com, sponsored by Toyota of Cleveland: In news today... Walker Valley High School and Oak Grove Elementary School
Here is today’s news on mymix1041.com, sponsored by Toyota of Cleveland:
In news today…
Walker Valley High School and Oak Grove Elementary School were named 2018 Reward Schools by the Tennessee Department of Education on Friday. Reward Schools are schools that are improving in achievement and growth both for all students and student groups. In Polk County, Benton elementary was named a Reward School. 2018 is the first year the Department of Education implemented it’s new school accountability system.
From the Cleveland Daily Banner…
A former inmate of the Bradley County Jail has filed a class action lawsuit against Bradley County, former Sheriff Eric Watson and three other Bradley County Sheriff’s Office employees. The complaint centers on medical care offered to inmates at the jail, but also includes claims related to prisoner deaths, jail overcrowding, failure of jail inspections and funding for medical care, among others.
The lawsuit was filed on Sept. 18 in Chattanooga’s U.S. District Court on behalf of Darrell Eden “and all others similarly situated.” The plaintiff and members of the putative class “are current and former inmates or pretrial detainees of the Bradley County Justice Center, who were or could be denied constitutionally adequate medical care by the BCSO specifically, and Bradley County more generally.”
The defendants in the suit are Bradley County, former Sheriff Eric Watson, BCSO Support Services Division Capt. Gabe Thomas, an unidentified male BSCO officer and an unidentified BCSO female officer. Watson, Thomas, “John Doe” and “Jane Doe” are all named in both their official and individual capacities.
The legal filing claims in recent years medical care has often “(1) simply not been made available to inmates at all, and (2) when offered, been so patently deficient as to violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.” In addition, the legal filing claims “BCSO officials have routinely disregarded known and unjustifiable risks of serious harm, both in the medical context and otherwise” to inmates who “routinely endured significant – even life-threatening – injuries while confined in the jail or in the custody of BCSO, some of which resulted in further injury or death.”
No dollar amount was listed in the legal filing, but relief in the form of “an award to each plaintiff class member of compensatory damages in an amount to be proved at trial,” as well as punitive damages, attorney’s fees, and other costs, including “an award to plaintiff and Inmate Class members of all such further relief as the Court may deem just and proper.”
Also from The Banner…
While the races for Tennessee’s next governor and U.S. Senator are drawing a lot of attention and strong comments, a local ballot question doesn’t seem to have garnered much conversation: whether to permit retail package stores to sell alcoholic beverages in the city of Cleveland.
The package store referendum is on the Nov. 6 ballot for Cleveland voters to decide whether package stores – also known as liquor stores – will be allowed to set up shop. The item was placed on the ballot in February, when the required number of signatures was turned in with a petition and approved by the Bradley County Election Commission.
John Sheehan, who organized the successful petition drive to have the package store referendum placed on the ballot, said in a telephone interview Friday he estimates $1 million per year of Bradley County residents’ money is being spent at package stores in surrounding counties.
The package store referendum will be decided by Cleveland voters on Nov. 6. The registration deadline to vote in the election is Tuesday, Oct. 9.
The Cleveland Daily Banner Reports…
Voters who want to exercise property rights voting in the Nov. 6 election have a little more than two weeks to register for the opportunity.
Bradley County residents who live outside the Cleveland city limits may be eligible to vote in city elections if they own property inside the city. Known as property rights voting, registration forms are available at the Bradley County Election Commission office. Property owners who meet the necessary criteria and complete registration will be eligible to vote in city elections.
The registration deadline for property rights voting is 30 days before Election Day. The next election is scheduled for Nov. 6; the registration deadline to vote in that election is Tuesday, Oct. 9.
As there is a city liquor referendum on the ballot, property rights voting does come into play in November.
