[pct-l] Fw: SAR California

[Mark Liechty]

Shutterbug steiner wrote:
> Every county in California has a mandate to have a SAR organization ..... all of the counties that I know run theirs through the county Sheriff department. 
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Thanks for the lesson.  I am learning but still not connecting the dots 
as this still turns out to be a payment from some magical source where 
there is no money.

If I were the San Francisco County Sheriff and I were faced with the 
budget mess they have I would cut SAR and force the mandate to be funded.  

We are talking about a situation where unfunded mandates are coming to 
an end and there are no funds.   Not $10,000 not $100 not $10.   Give me 
the choice of letting the person who got lost in the woods die or 
letting the rapist of of Jail and I keep the rapist locked up.

Same for the Sheriff of all of those small Northern CA Counties where 
they won't have money to fund life or death critical services for people 
they have known for years.

Those are the choices.   It is up to those of use who go to the woods to 
understand that the risk is going to be higher.   Failing to do so could 
have vary bad consequences.