LORAIN COUNTY, Ohio — In the latest flashpoint of an ongoing debate over emergency radios in Lorain County, Cleveland Communications, Inc. has filed a motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction.

The motion comes two weeks after the Lorain County Board of Commissioners voted to end a lease with the company on a county-owned radio tower. That move is raising alarm among some of the county’s emergency responders.

“I would trade in my guns, my handcuffs and my badge and solely wish for a radio,” said Sheffield Village Police Chief William Visalden. “It gets us where you need us to be and it gets us the help that we may need once we arrive.”

Visalden is also the president of the Lorain County Chiefs Law Enforcement Association. He said he’s heard collective concern f

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