Legal Aid Office in Georgia Can't Catch a Break

by Kristen Pavón

As if shrinking budgets weren’t enough, a legal aid office in Athens, Georgia was burglarized last weekend. I mean, really?

Almost a dozen laptop computers were stolen. Attorneys didn’t seem too upset about it though…

“As far as the effect of the theft on our work, it’s not going to slow us down much,” he [Public Defender John Donnelly] said. “We’ll work around it until we can get them back or replaced.”

“They are all password protected, so the files are not easily accessible,” Donnelly said.

That’s a great attitude. If it were me, I’d be up-the-wall upset — what could I get done without my computer?! Nada.

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