Suffolk Bancorp Changes Accounting Firms

Suffolk Bancorp (NASDAQ: SUBK) today announced that, on January 19, 2012, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Suffolk Bancorp determined not to engage Grant Thornton LLP as Suffolk's independent registered public accounting firm for the audit of the company's financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, and for periods thereafter, and engaged BDO USA, LLP as the new independent registered public accounting firm, effective immediately.