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Local advocate urges county to preserve funding for children's crime and ICAC units
Summary
A speaker at Greenville County's public comment session warned that cuts to the sheriff's budget could reduce investigators in the Children's Crime Unit and the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) unit, which she said handle hundreds of cases a year.
Toni Clark, of Defenders for Children, told Greenville County officials during the public comment portion of the county's communications meeting that reductions to the sheriff's budget risked cutting investigators in the Children's Crime Unit and the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) unit.
"That budget that the sheriff is asking affects the children's crime unit and the ICAC unit," Clark said, urging commissioners to visit the units and learn about the caseload.
Clark said those units…
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