{"id":72,"date":"2007-02-28T14:24:33","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T20:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/28\/more-budget-news\/"},"modified":"2007-02-28T14:24:33","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T20:24:33","slug":"more-budget-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/02\/28\/more-budget-news\/","title":{"rendered":"More Budget News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have received many inquiries from assistant public defenders about the real number of layoffs that our Office is facing.\u00a0 In response to those inquiries, we have explained that the final number is uncertain right now, and that we do not want to give out inaccurate information on such an important matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite a Suntimes claim several days ago that the accurate number of layoffs in our Office is 10, the fact is that no one knows the final number at this point- not the Union, not Mr. Burnette, and not the Commissioners.\u00a0 This is because the budget process in not over.\u00a0 In fact, the Tribune reported the following today: <strong><em>&#8220;The new numbers\u00a0are not final because some figures, such as those for the public defender&#8217;s office, still must be fully reconciled, budget officials\u00a0said<\/em>.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As soon as\u00a0we have a\u00a0reliable and accurate number, we will report that number here.\u00a0 As we have throughout this process, we will continue to fight for every position possible for assistant public defenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have received many inquiries from assistant public defenders about the real number of layoffs that our Office is facing.\u00a0 In response to those inquiries, we have explained that the final number is uncertain right now, and that we do not want to give out inaccurate information on such an important matter.\u00a0 Despite a Suntimes [&hellip;]<\/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-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}