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BACDL SAVES THE DAY?

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Details are sketchy, but the inexhaustible Ira Still and BACDL may have found a last minute solution regarding the in-custody drug programs, with major assistance from, drum roll please, Mike Satz and Monica Hofheinz.Apparently, there is roughly half a million dollars sitting in a trust fund garnered from defendant fines.  For whatever reason, nobody knew about it until the SAO folks found it, but it's definitely there.  The fund is a function of Chapter 938 of the Florida Statutes , which also provides for the assessment of additional fines in certain types of cases.The proposal to save the programs would incorporate additional judicially imposed fines, the "found" money in the trust fund, and a potential matching grant by Sheriff Lamberti from BSO's commissary funds...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on September 22, 2009 (boomark / email).