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The Florida budget ax

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Interesting times appear afoot in Florida.   The Orlando Sentinel in a piece entitled Cuts would stymie justice system, state attorneys say looks at how the budget ax is cutting in to prosecutions: Florida state attorneys are merging jobs, encouraging retirement, freezing positions and contemplating four-day workweeks as they struggle with demands from Tallahassee to slash millions of dollars from their budgets.. . . “Cutting us is really not about the relatively small amount of money you might save. It’s about what it would cost in terms of [public] safety,” said 8th Circuit State Attorney Bill Cervone, whose office is based in Gainesville. Florida’s 20 state attorneys may be asked to cut 4 percent of their budgets — $14...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 14, 2008 (boomark / email).