CBS Sacramento Dixon NewsSACRAMENTO – The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors agreed Wednesday night to restore proposed budget cuts to the district attorney's office.
The move comes after District Attorney Thien Ho testified inside the chambers that the cuts would lead him to halt prosecutions of all misdemeanor cases.
He turned the board chambers into more of a courtroom, arguing his case against cuts.
"The word 'recommendation' means that I approve of it, that I consent to it, and I'm going to say right now I've never consented, approved, or recommended any of these cuts," Ho said. "If we cut by $1.7 million, I won't have the vacancies to fill the misdemeanor cases."
Ho said his department was already working with limited resources.
"Because we are hanging together by duct tape and superglue," Ho said.
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