{"id":44019,"date":"2019-07-29T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=44019"},"modified":"2019-07-26T22:32:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T02:32:13","slug":"lee-county-sheriff-spending-money-right-and-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/07\/lee-county-sheriff-spending-money-right-and-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County Sheriff Spending Money Right and Left"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sheriff cancels a REAL LIFE program called \u201cProject Lifesaver\u201d which had a waiting list to be on it. (note all the equipment was destroyed) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/How-It-Works.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/How-It-Works.jpg 275w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/How-It-Works-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>There is nothing like a budget crunch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No money for overtime<\/strong> \u2026. But there is money for shiny new badges and new uniforms and websites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sheriff had the gold-colored badges for lieutenants and above redesigned at the cost of nearly $10,000 of taxpayer\u2019s money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/received_669078033560937.jpeg?fit=577%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44020\" width=\"238\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/received_669078033560937.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/received_669078033560937-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/received_669078033560937-577x1024.jpeg 577w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>And the Deputy Dog program new website designed by revise and\nFacebook page costing the taxpayers ???? because the Sheriff will not release\nthose numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"257\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Deputy-Chance.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44021\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>And newly redesigned uniforms for the School Resource Officers at what cost???? will not release those numbers either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Editorial note: We need deputies protecting the citizens of Lee County, not those this items. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheriff cancels a REAL LIFE program called \u201cProject Lifesaver\u201d which had a waiting list to be on it. (note all the equipment was destroyed) There is nothing like a budget&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}