More County Money Wasted

And there's a name to blame this time:

• The Cook County Sheriff’s Office said Monday it had mistakenly rejected and returned 1,000 judicial election guides that Injustice Watch sent to eligible voters detained at Cook County Jail.

  The guides, produced by Injustice Watch and printed in collaboration with the South Side Weekly, were mailed to the jail earlier this month to help people in pre-trial detention complete the long and often obscure judicial section of their ballots. Injustice Watch has produced Cook County judicial election guides since 2016, but this year marked the first time the organization sent print copies of their guide to voters currently detained in the jail.

  Emails show Injustice Watch had been in touch with county officials about mailing the judicial guide to jail detainees since early September. One official wrote on Sept. 24 that she would “advise the mailroom” about the incoming guides.

  But on Monday, Hanke Gratteau, director of the Cook County Sheriff’s Justice Institute, notified Injustice Watch Executive Director Juliet Sorensen that the delivery had been botched at the jail...

Gratteau is one of the many media spouses/children/pin cushions that Dart hired (at six-figures) so he would get positive media coverage, in this case, the wife of gadfly Mark Brown. 

This was an easily avoidable fuck-up, as stated by another of Dart's six-figure media hirees:

• Cook County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Matthew Walberg said in a statement the guides had been mistakenly rejected “because the mailroom erroneously believed there was a ban on distribution of newspaper.”

  “This absolutely should not have occurred as our policy specifically allows for mail printed on newsprint to be disseminated to detainees. We are working to determine where the error in judgment took place,” Walberg said. “We have expressed our sincere apology to Injustice Watch leadership for our error, and we will be working with them to find ways to make this right to the fullest extent possible and to ensure that it does not happen again.”
  

It isn't difficult to get ballots or election materials to-and-from people who aren't going anywhere as they await trial.

But then again, it isn't hard to actually follow the rules as written to guarantee Officers in the department their due process either, and we see how Dart screwed the pooch on that one, costing taxpayers potential millions.