First, they prayed outside Citizens Square. Then the group of about eight people, four of them pastors, went inside to make their case to those who set Allen County’s budget. Members of the Fort Wayne chapter of Faith in Indiana sought less incarceration and more funding for treatment for people with mental illness and addiction who face jail.
But the group, which had invited county Sheriff David Gladieux and Council President Tom Harris to a community meeting last month to lay out their agenda, again got no promises for money – although the council is in the midst of 2020 budget deliberations.
