Tag: Steven Leifman
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Broward’s criminal justice system failing mentally ill, too costly
By Howard Finkelstein
Special to BrowardBulldog.org
Editor’s note: Broward’s public defender writes to the chief judge to say the county’s mental health is backwards, cruel and unnecessarily costly and urges Broward to follow Miami-Dade’s lead. -
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More judges may have violated rules by working with company overseeing public health funds
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Two more South Florida judges may have violated ethics rules by serving on the board of a private company that controls public health care spending. Those Miami-Dade judges sit on the board of a nonprofit corporation that is paid by the Department of Children and Families to administer tens of millions of behavioral healthcare dollars.
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