The 167 corrections officers currently working in the Lake County Jail are 55 less than the 222 corrections officer positions funded by the county s annual budget.
The Lake County Council has authorized Assessor LaTonya Spearman to file an unprecedented appeal of the assessed valuation of the real property of U.S. Steel Gary Works.
The team representing Lake County Sheriff s Department officers and the county s negotiating team have been in talks for 10 months on a new police contract.
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More than 900 Lake County employees received the wrong W-2s due to an undetected problem within the transfer of data to Lake County’s new accounting software and council members want to know just who is going to make those workers whole. Councilman Ted Bilski, D-Hobart, is one of the 919 individuals who received an incorrect W-2. He had already filed his taxes, signed his name and sent a check .