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Cost-Cutting Measure Slows Crackdown On Dui
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On New Year’s Eve, an unprecedented number of Florida Highway Patrol troopers – many of them working without pay – will try to keep drunk drivers off Dade streets. But Dade corrections officials have put a roadblock in their way: The county’s main DUI processing center will be closed for the holiday weekend. The reason? “We want to relieve our overtime costs,” Dade corrections spokeswoman Janelle Hall said Monday. Over the Christmas Source : nl.newsbank.com |
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