A 71-page complaint filed by three Franklin County residents accuses the county’s top appointed and elected officials of steering budget and data center business out of public view — and the question of whether any of it broke the law is now in the hands of a prosecutor from outside the county.
Who is named
The complaint, filed July 1, names three officials: County Administrator Steve Sandy, Board of Supervisors Chair Lorie Smith and Vice Chair Nick Mitchell. The three residents who brought it asked that their names be withheld…