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Budget cuts taking toll in prosecutor's offices per CJ story; click on heading for entire story:



Prosecutors could face furloughs

3-week closings may stall system



By Joseph Gerth ? jgerth@courier-journal.com ? December 18, 2008



Commonwealth's attorney's offices around Kentucky, including Jefferson County's, would close for three weeks if Gov. Steve Beshear follows through with his call for a 4 percent budget cut.

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Beshear has proposed the cuts throughout much of state government to deal with a projected budget shortfall of $456 million.



The Kentucky Prosecutors' Advisory Council, in turn, gave the state's 57 commonwealth's attorneys until tomorrow to decide which of three options to use to cut their budgets -- furlough workers for three weeks, lay off workers or slash their payrolls by 13.35 percent.