{"id":98082,"date":"2011-06-02T12:57:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=98082"},"modified":"2011-06-03T13:15:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T18:15:29","slug":"alto-officials-furlough-police-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=98082","title":{"rendered":"Alto Officials Furlough Police Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/2011\/06\/02\/alto-officials-furlough-police-force\/thumb_police-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98085\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/06\/thumb_police-1-150x106.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_police-1\" width=\"150\" height=\"106\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-98085\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nALTO \u2014 A Cherokee County town will furlough its police force for six months, believing it the best way to save the city money. The Alto City Council voted to cut off for six months the wages and benefits for Alto\u2019s police chief and four police officers, effective June 16. That\u2019s despite Mayor Monty Collins\u2019 warning that such a move is a mistake. The furlough would turn over law enforcement for the town of about 1,200 residents to the Cherokee County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Deputies recently took over law enforcement down the road in the town of Wells. That\u2019s after the governing council in that town of 800 residents laid off its only police officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALTO \u2014 A Cherokee County town will furlough its police force for six months, believing it the best way to save the city money. The Alto City Council voted to cut off for six months the wages and benefits for Alto\u2019s police chief and four police officers, effective June 16. That\u2019s despite Mayor Monty Collins\u2019 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=98082\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alto Officials Furlough Police Force<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 00:00:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98082"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98400,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98082\/revisions\/98400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}