AM 1240 WJON » state hospital http://wjon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 05:34:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Additional Sex Offender Costs Shift To Counties http://wjon.com/additional-sex-offender-costs-shift-to-counties/ http://wjon.com/additional-sex-offender-costs-shift-to-counties/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:01:40 +0000 Lee Voss http://wjon.com/?p=26441 County officials are saying it is just the latest example of how the state balances its budget by shifting the burden to counties. They're talking about a new state law that requires counties to pick up 25-percent of the cost for committing sexually dangerous people to state hospitals. Before this new law, counties paid 10-percent.

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