Shame that they can't sue each of the individuals involved. Maybe if they can hit the county hard enough it will make some difference. Not too much hope in that though, it's only tax money.
It occurs to me that a good way to make the politicians in power feel the pain would be to allow the victims to take their $8 million out of the budgets of county programs of their choice....
Or maybe they can fire the moron that spearheaded the entire thing to begin with. WTH does it take to read numbers on a house. One would also think that someone, anyone, took a drive by at some point during the day to see which house it was.
These people deserve something, but as usual, with attorneys involved, what that "something" is is grossly inflated.
Municipalities should have the right to recover any judgement from the individuals if they didn't act in a reasonable manner. Then there would be a deterrent, and the taxpayers wouldn't be on the hook as bad.