BUTLER COUNTY, OH — Butler County Prosecutor Mike Gmoser resigned from his police union and created a formal credibility‑tracking list for officers after the head of another union publicly challenged his office and its handling of a Middletown officer’s criminal case.
In a March 9 letter sent to Sheriff Richard Jones and all police chiefs throughout Butler County, Gmoser criticized Deputy Jasen Hatfield, the president of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 101, the union to which the sheriff’s office belongs, for comments he posted online last week.