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  "path": "/news/2026/02/27/massachusetts-sheriffs-budget-opaque-legislature",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-27T13:57:58.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Inspector General Jeffrey Shapiro said the sheriffs’ budgeting problems start with the state budget. The commonwealth “routinely” underfunds sheriffs, he wrote, with the understanding that departments will get more money later in the year to cover overruns.",
  "title": "Mass. inspector general calls sheriffs’ budget process ‘opaque, chaotic and deeply flawed'"
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