Counties’ Cutbacks Costs more than Money
If you are like me, you probably haven’t though much about the current rage of budget cuts. You typically may not even care or be aware unless you fall into the category of being effected by them. For many of us, we are so far “behind the eight ball” that anything else bad that happens in our lives is just chalked up to the old adage “oh well”. Not this time. James Fuller, a reporter for the Daily Herald in Kane County, wrote an article titled “More than 1,000 Kane County DUIs not reported to state” and Brenda Schory, a reporter for the Kane County Chronicle wrote one titled “Thousands of DUI records from Kane County under review”. Both these article covered how the Circuit Court Clerk’s Office failed to perform its job by transmitting these records to the State so that its records would reflect if requirements to maintain or lose your license had been met. Needless to mention that hundreds of those who completed every action required to keep th...