No food for jurors, no more window or telephone services to citizens wanting information about their court cases, and cutting the positions of roughly 40 Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office employees, 21 clerks, at least 20 Court Services employees and seven Public Defender’s Office attorneys.

These are some of the possible implications of proposed budget reductions in Kane County’s public safety offices this year, according to the county leaders who run those offices.

At the Kane County Board Judicial and Public Safety Committee meeting on Thursday, county elected officials and staff criticized the county board’s recent attempts to cut down the county budget for the coming year amid a looming shortfall, pointing to the programs it would impact in their respective offices, the staff re

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