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| Proposed cuts come under fire |
| By The Florida Times-Union |
| Published: 01/06/2009 |
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FLORIDA - Florida lawmakers opened a budget-cutting special session Monday with anti-crime and social service advocates warning that dollars saved could cost the public's safety. Reduced spending on juvenile crime programs, drug addiction and mentally ill prisoners are all parts of a far-reaching package of budget changes the Legislature is considering to help erase a $2.3 billion deficit in the state government's current budget, brought on by collapsing state revenues. But advocates argued some cuts would be shortsighted. "Gangs are creeping in everywhere," Key Biscayne Police Chief Charles Press warned. Press told lawmakers during a hearing that reducing juvenile justice programs would make it harder to steer young people away from crime. He also said city police departments would be hurt by a cut in state aid to help with investigations of drug rings. |
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