Your Tax Dollars Paid for Now Lost or Stolen Items in State Offices
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Channel: Dayton 24/7 Now · 2013 · News & Politics
COLUMBUS -- You may be surprised to know that the state of Ohio has a lost or missing list, and the items on it total nearly a half a million dollars.If you're wondering what's on that list? How about and 18 foot trailer, 22 printers, a floor machine cleaner, five breathalyzers, along with phones, radios and cameras.We told the Board of Cosmetology that they were missing printers and laptops. Executive Director Jim Trakas says his department takes things seriously We found them at a pawn shop in Cambridge, Ohio--two of them. The other one we don't know what happened to that., Jim Trakas told us.Statewide, many laptops are not in the lap they should be, like at the Attorney General's office where they are missing ten.Greg Lawson with the Buckeye Institute says government has always had a tough time keeping track of things, Because you don't have the same kinds of incentives that private companies do. Private companies --it's equipment, it's profits.Some of the lost equipment could be classified as troubling, like guns, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources is missing three of them.Here's what they told us, ''We strive to protect public property. ODNR is taking steps to ensure proper protection of all law enforcement vehicles and equipment.''
