Silence About Threat Called ‘Unacceptable’ – All Otsego

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Silence About Threat

Called 'Unacceptable'

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Milford Central's new superintendent of schools, Mark Place, speaks during the county board's public comment period this morning. He called the county board's failure to alert his school and Oneonta's to an alleged threat by Sgt. Ros Devlin an "egregious error." (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

County Reps. Andrew Marietta, left, and Dan Wilber debate upgrading lines of communication within the board and with the public.

COOPERSTOWN – Failure over four months to alert Milford Central School about Sgt. Ros Devlin's alleged threat to "shoot up" MCS and Oneonta schools is "totally unacceptable," the school's new superintendent, Mark A. Place, told the county Board of Representatives this morning.

"Each day we are held responsible for keeping safe over 400 students and 100 employees," Place said, reading from a letter to the county board.  "We do not take this responsibility lightly.  To not be notified of a specific and potentially lethal threat against our school was an egregious error."

It was four months between the alleged threat on Jan. 5 by Sheriff Richard J. Devlin's son and the April 4 news report on www.allotsego.com that alerted the schools and the public at large, based on court documents made public by the county board's Public Safety & Legal Affairs Committee.

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