CINCINNATI — Iris Roley, a consultant for the City of Cincinnati, hired her son to work with young people at Government Square, a part-time job that paid $4,400 a month, according to city records.

The city reimbursed Roley for her son’s salary and that of three other community care monitors who earned roughly $58 an hour for after-school work for three months in the fall, and again in the spring, according to her contract.

Many city leaders have praised the program for reducing youth violence at transit centers, but some question why Roley could hire her son, Rechah Showes.

“For the most part, it isn’t that easy to get a job with the city. So when you have somebody jumping to the front of the line and getting hired because their mother is going to be their boss, people don’t view that a

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