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Luzerne County has retained an outside consultant to examine prison operations, county Manager Romilda Crocamo announced Friday.

Luzerne County Manager Romilda Crocamo presented her views during Thursday’s study commission meeting, including arguments for keeping the top manager position appointed instead of elected and maintaining a central law office rather than switching back to individual solicitors.

Luzerne County Council must decide if it will continue funding law enforcement officers at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport security checkpoints next year.

If the money becomes available, Luzerne County’s operational services division is asking council to earmark $3.85 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds to repair a 1.96-mile portion of Lower Demunds Road in Dallas Township and other county-owned infrastructure.

Applications supplied to Luzerne County Council Monday provide details on how $1.56 million in county opioid litigation settlement funds may be spent.

Luzerne County’s Election Board will meet Monday to complete the last step necessary to close out the Nov. 5 general election.

An inmate was wrongly released from Luzerne County’s Minimal Offender Unit Tuesday evening based on a court paperwork mixup stemming from a protection-from-abuse court hearing, according to an email sent to county council.

Luzerne County Council unanimously voted Tuesday to cancel a $2 million federal American Rescue Plan Act allocation for a parkade at the former Hotel Sterling site in Wilkes-Barre.

The Luzerne County Election Board’s Nov. 5 general election adjudication wrapped up Monday — with contention.

Luzerne County Council is set to vote Tuesday on a legal settlement stemming from a 2023 county female prison inmate death, the agenda said.