Posted on 01/31/2025 3:33:54 PM PST by Libloather
The Fulton County Board of Commissioners opted against allocating a substantial monetary increase for the county district attorney’s office when finalizing its 2025 fiscal year budget on Wednesday, perhaps bringing a monthslong standoff with DA Fani Willis into its next phase.
The board allocated $39.3 million of its nearly $1 billion budget to the DA’s office, a figure that Willis has insisted will not allow her staff to properly carry out its duties.
The adopted budget also fails to provide additional funding requested by other justice and safety partners, like the magistrate courts and the solicitor general.
Capital B Atlanta reported earlier this month that Willis sent a letter in response to a proposed budget to each of the county commissioners in December warning that she would pursue legal action against the board if her office’s funding is not adequately increased.
Willis and other officials fear that insufficient funding to justice departments could cause setbacks in preventing crime and violence; keeping courts operating efficiently; and managing the population at Fulton County Jail, the troubled facility that disproportionately houses Black detainees.
“Without adequate funding to properly serve the citizens of this County, we have to explore legal remedies which includes filing a lawsuit against the Board of Commissioners to seek a budget consistent with the number and nature of cases this office handles,” Willis wrote in her letter to the commissioners dated Dec. 11. “Hear me clearly: if you enact the proposed budget: people will die.”
The district attorney’s office did not respond to a request for comment at press time.
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Willis wrote in her letter to the commissioners dated Dec. 11. “Hear me clearly: if you enact the proposed budget: people will die.”
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what ?
why will someone die ?
you owe the cartels $$$ Willis ?
Fat Fani will be earning $$$$ again soon on her knees, where she started
They should’ve removed her.
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This is comical....since when has her office sincerely cared about preventing crime and violence?
And if the population at the jail is disproportionately black.....she is the DA is she not??
We both know it is not disproportionately black given who is committing the serious crime in Fulton county.
How many million$ did she throw away during her witchhunt cases against Trump?
Maybe the board needed to reign her in a bit, after that complete lack of judgement.
She needs to be jailed, along with Letitia & Alvin.
Corruption isn’t cheap. It costs money to make people do things.
Sounds like Fat Fani is fixing to get skinny.....LOL
FC missed a golden opportunity here. They should have zero'd out fat fannys budget and said, sue us now.
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