Clayton County Sheriff Levon Allen has publicly blamed his agency’s decades-old technology and poor training for last month’s mistaken release of a convicted killer, but a political rival says the blunder shows Allen is running his office “like a kid in a Toys ‘R’ Us.”
Allen’s office came into the spotlight in recent weeks for all the wrong reasons: Kathan Guzman, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his girlfriend, spent two weeks on the lam after he was mistakenly released from the county jail March 25, officials said.
The mix-up made national headlines in part because the sheriff’s office said it wasn’t even aware of the error until the local district attorney’s office reached out April 8 to ask where Guzman was…