Commission Considers Taking Jail From Sheriff
Broward County FL commissioners will vote on whether to hire a consultant to study taking over the jail, a move that is a jab at Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti. Report from the Miami Herald.
Commissioners want Lamberti to slash more than $50 million from his budget. Since BSO represents about half the general fund, county officials say Lamberti should share in about half the cuts. Lamberti disagrees with that proportional approach. ”Not every priority of government is the same,” Lamberti said in an interview at a National Sheriff’s Association conference in Fort Lauderdale Tuesday. “I think public safety is the No. 1 priority of government. And it should be ranked No. 1. And I think that’s where we’re having the philosophical difference, on what are the priorities.” Lamberti proposed a $722 million budget that is slightly bigger than next year, although it slows growth in spending by laying off 177 workers, closing a jail and axing drug treatment for inmates …
Republican Lamberti and the nine Democratic commissioners are at war — Lamberti has fired off more than a dozen public records requests seeking documents from the county while both sides trade jabs at each other and plead their case in the media.
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