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Ohio cop fired for 14 counts of dereliction of duty is now a cop seven miles away in another town

web.archive.org Former YPD Lieutenant accused of dereliction of duty now working in Poland

According to a post on Poland Village's Facebook page, former YPD Lieutenant Brian Flynn was hired as a Poland Schools resource officer on September 26, however he had since been reassigned to road pa

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TL/DR: As a cop in Youngstown, Ohio, Lieutenant Brian Flynn was charged with 14 counts of dereliction of duty, including "failure to investigate numerous cases of child sex abuse or child pornography." He was fired, and then charges were dropped on a technicality.

He was then hired as a cop in the neighboring town of Poland, Ohio, where he was assigned as a school cop, despite the bit about failure to investigate child sex abuse or child pornography. After public outcry, he's no long a school cop. Instead he's been reassigned to road patrol, because "Not every police officer is a good school officer," says the schools superintendent.

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