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Lake County panel emergency-approves funding to cover prosecutors’ pay, fund conviction integrity director
Summary
The committee approved a joint resolution to emergency-appropriate $98,000 from a special asset forfeiture fund to reimburse the general fund for certain prosecutors’ salary/benefit costs and to reallocate $82,000 to fund the conviction integrity unit director pending a grant modification with the Illinois Innocence Project.
The Lake County Law & Judicial Committee on Dec. 2 approved an emergency appropriation to move $98,000 from a special asset forfeiture account to reimburse the general fund for certain State’s Attorney Office employees and to reallocate $82,000 to fund the conviction integrity unit director for fiscal year 2026.
Joe Gervitter, chief deputy of administrative services for the State’s Attorney’s Office, told the committee the…
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