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Hoschton Police Department Dissolved
HOSCHTON, Ga. (AP) The Jackson County Sheriff's Office will take over law enforcement duties in Hoschton, which has decided to dissolve its police department.
Hoschton's city council voted last week to scrap the city's three-officer police department and its municipal court system, saving about $360,000 a year.
The Athens Banner-Herald reports that open police cases will be transferred to the sheriff's office and court cases will be handled in Jackson County State Court.
Mayor Erma Denney and four new councilmen adopted a budget last week that shrank 2010 spending by about half. The city's staff is now two-thirds what it was in 2008.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Hoschton's city council voted last week to scrap the city's three-officer police department and its municipal court system, saving about $360,000 a year.
The Athens Banner-Herald reports that open police cases will be transferred to the sheriff's office and court cases will be handled in Jackson County State Court.
Mayor Erma Denney and four new councilmen adopted a budget last week that shrank 2010 spending by about half. The city's staff is now two-thirds what it was in 2008.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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