State police to conduct investigation of shelter

He expected it to get a few hundred hits, he says, but more than 5,000 people have visited the site.

"It's gotten to the point where I almost don't have time to do anything else," he said.

"The allegations just keep pouring in."

He encouraged anyone with complaints to attend a recent meeting of the county commissioners, where the next fiscal year's budget was to be discussed.

More than 20 people testified, some in tears, that the facility was so poorly run the county should defund it.

County Administrator Alfred C. Wein has said the county will look carefully at the outcome of the investigations.

Craig Eastridge, state's attorney for Cecil County, said that even though his office would normally conduct a criminal investigation, it did not object to investigations originating outside the county.

An assistant state's attorney, Keith Baynes, is a member of CCSPA's board, and Cecil County Sheriff Barry Janney is an ex officio member.

Eastridge said last week that he planned to contact the state police over the weekend to request the investigation.