{"id":13438,"date":"2013-02-15T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=13438"},"modified":"2013-02-15T13:24:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T18:24:53","slug":"governors-budget-expands-public-safety-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2013\/02\/15\/governors-budget-expands-public-safety-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor&#8217;s Budget Expands Public Safety Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13440\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Like many services with state funding, law enforcement took some hits in the last budget\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2013\/02\/3090392251_911be4dfaf.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13440\" title=\"Police Car Lights\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2013\/02\/3090392251_911be4dfaf-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2013\/02\/3090392251_911be4dfaf-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2013\/02\/3090392251_911be4dfaf.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Scott Davidson \/ Flickr Creative Commons<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Like many services with state funding, law enforcement took some hits in the last budget<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Calling public safety \u201cour most important responsibility,\u201d Governor Maggie Hassan outlined her funding proposals in today\u2019s budget address. Comparing public safety to the state\u2019s health care system, Hassan said it had taken \u201ctoo many hits\u201d in the last budget.\u00a0 She called on legislators to \u201creverse course\u201d immediately, in the interest of keeping New Hampshire residents safe.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last few years, we have taken 30 state troopers off of our roads and out of our communities.\u00a0 People in our most rural areas should not have to wait for more than an hour for the nearest state trooper to arrive,\u201d Hassan said.<\/p>\n<p>The governor pledged funding to return 15 state troopers to the New Hampshire\u2019s roads.\u00a0 She said the state would add $500,000 a year in drug task force money to replace some federal funding cuts.\u00a0 Hassan called for restoring funding to the judiciary, allowing for two more superior court judges.\u00a0 And saying women prisoners were \u201cwoefully neglected,\u201d she pledged funds to build a new women\u2019s prison.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan also promised $200,000 a year in search and rescue funding for the Department of Fish and Game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling public safety \u201cour most important responsibility,\u201d Governor Maggie Hassan outlined her funding proposals in today\u2019s budget address. Comparing public safety to the state\u2019s health care system, Hassan said it had taken \u201ctoo many hits\u201d in the last budget.\u00a0 She called on legislators to \u201creverse course\u201d immediately, in the interest of keeping New Hampshire residents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":13440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[474],"tags":[446,477,478,476,540,579,494],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}