Public defender's office says failed DA tax impacts their office

BATON ROUGE— Sixty percent of parish voters rejected the East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney's 20-year tax proposal Saturday.
The tax would have raised over $24 Million a year for the office.Chief Deputy Defender Kyla Romanach said the public defender's office would’ve received a portion of the $8.7 million in the city-parish's general fund currently allocated to the DA's office.Hillar Moore told WBRZ that since the proposition failed his office would still receive the