Georgia may furlough first responders and close courts in spending cuts

Published May 28, 2020 12:02pm ET



The heads of Georgia’s public safety and criminal justice agencies will have to furlough employees, cut pay and freeze vacant positions to meet the 14 percent budget reductions requested by lawmakers, they said.

Officials from the departments that make up the state’s criminal justice and law enforcement system met with members of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Subcommittee on Wednesday to outline their cuts.

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