As many of you know by now, Todd Stroger made some secret and inappropriate moves with the Public Defender budget:\u00a0he hired another high-paid “advisor” and hid the salary on the Public Defender budget.\u00a0 At a time when assistant public defenders have been laid off due to budget reductions, this move is unacceptable.<\/p>\n
The union has been in contact with County Commissioners about this situation, and some have expressed outrage about this\u00a0budget slight-of-hand.\u00a0 Our hope is that the Commissioners see Stroger’s latest move, and many others like it, as a improper disregard for the budget process and the will of the County Board.\u00a0 We are trying to keep Commissioners’ attention on this issue and on the plight of our office as a result of the layoffs.\u00a0 We have sent a Letter to Commissioners<\/a>\u00a0seeking action.\u00a0 If anything good comes of this, we will let you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As many of you know by now, Todd Stroger made some secret and inappropriate moves with the Public Defender budget:\u00a0he hired another high-paid “advisor” and hid the salary on the Public Defender budget.\u00a0 At a time when assistant public defenders have been laid off due to budget reductions, this move is unacceptable. The union has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}