Activists ‘disappointed and not surprised’ after $181.7M of Cook County’s coronavirus relief funding spent on reimbursing sheriff’s office payroll – Chicago Tribune*

Budget Director Annette Guzman and Chief Financial Officer Ammar Rizki are authorized under an emergency resolution passed in the spring to move around coronavirus relief funding without direct approval from the board. They said the sheriff’s office received a vast portion of it because employees needed it to socially distance the jail on top of keeping up with an explosion in the electronic monitoring population.

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