The county sheriff’s department would be among the harder hit by worst-case-scenario layoffs.
The budget message details 29 sheriff’s office layoffs, including four jail officers, four patrol officers, two 911 dispatchers, and eight jail booking clerks. The total also includes jobs already eliminated by Sheriff Michael Brooks decision to close the county work-release jail and put its inmates on global-positioning satellite tracking systems.
In a memo included in Harris’ budget message, Brooks warns the additional layoffs would have direct impact on department services, including scaled back “front window” hours at the jail in the evening and overnight.
“This will result in reduced visitation for the inmates, reduced hours that professionals, i.e. Probation/Parole, Attorneys, will be able to come to the jail to see their clients,” Brooks states.
The county’s successful teen court program – which helps troubled adolescents avoid juvenile records by facing a court of their peers – would see its coordinator’s work time shaved down by 10 days of unpaid leave a year.
“Fewer cases will be accepted in to the program and children that otherwise could have successfully avoided the same formal court process will have a juvenile court record,” the “service impact” of the cut states.
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