With NC Republicans stalled on a budget deal, an ankle-monitoring program designed to stop domestic violence expires.
North Carolina still does not have a budget four months after it was due because Republicans, who control both chambers of the General Assembly, have been unable to agree on how to spend the state’s money.
Without a budget, funding for several bipartisan programs has expired, including an ankle-monitoring program for known domestic abusers.
NC Sen. Woodson Bradley, a Mecklenburg County Democrat and domestic abuse survivor, sat down with Cardinal & Pine recently to explain why it is so dangerous to let this program lapse.
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