Government
Jan. 13, 2017
Dependency lawyers bemoan governor's refusal to boost budget
Dependency attorneys were "saddened, but not surprised" not to get budgetary relief.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
When a budget increase for dependency counsel funding was yanked from the 2014 California budget at the eleventh hour, Ed Howard, for the first time in his professional career, cried. But now that attorneys who represent abused and neglected children have been through the same experience for three of the last four budgets, they are "saddened, but not surprised."
On Tuesday, Gov. Jerry Brown...
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