The Orange County Sheriffs’ Department overran their budget by $77 million in the last three years combined – including a nearly $30 million overrun this past fiscal year.
Those cost overruns are the highest of any department in the county according to year-end budget reports, which show that the $17 million overage reported from the Social Services Agency in that same time frame came in second place for the last fiscal year.
But the sheriff’s department insists those aren’t overruns: their budget is built underfunded so officials have to request more money from the supervisors in an effort to keep costs down…