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Sedgwick County warns KDOC funding formula would cut community corrections grant by 38%
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Commissioner Ryan Beatty said the Kansas Department of Correctionsreallocation would reduce Sedgwick Countycommunity corrections grant by 38% beginning 2027, about $2.1 million, and the county will press the governor and legislature to revisit the formula.
Commissioner Ryan Beatty of Sedgwick County said the Kansas Department of Corrections plans to reallocate community corrections grant money in a way that would reduce Sedgwick County's share by 38% beginning in 2027, a cut he said totals nearly $2,100,000.
Beatty said the change stems from a new funding formula developed after review by the Community Corrections Advisory Committee and that the total pot of KDOC grant money is not being reduced, only the way the money is allocated among counties. "38%. How does our county, which has the state's highest number of felony offenders under supervision, with nearly 25 percent of…
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