Summer is the season for vacations.
Most companies and organizations, large or small, have some kind of vacation policy in place to administer the benefit. Those policies include such items as advance notice, maximum length of time, and, typically, that key personnel can't be on vacation simultaneously. Apparently such rules aren't in place at the Franklin County Attorney's Office. An emergency county commissioner's meeting was held Wednesday evening to name a special prosecutor, since there wasn't a qualified prosecutor on duty. County Attorney Larry Wright and Deputy County Attorney Frederick L. Meier II were both on vacation at the same time, leaving a third attorney, who has yet to pass his bar exam, alone to man the office and the courtroom.