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10-12-2011, 04:58 AM
By MACKENZIE WEINGER | 10/12/11 6:28 AM EDT Updated: 10/12/11 6:45 AM EDT

City leaders in Topeka, Kansas, voted on Tuesday night to repeal the local law against domestic violence in a move officials blame on budget cuts.
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In September, the county’s district attorney stopped pursuing prosecutions of domestic violence in the city, citing a 10 percent budget cut, the Associated Press reported.

But the mayor and city council want the DA to take up the cases again and believe repealing the city’s domestic violence law will add pressure on him to renew prosecutions of domestic violence and assault cases.

In the month since new prosecutions of domestic violence stopped in Topeka, there have been at least 35 reported cases of domestic battery or assault, and 18 people jailed have been released without facing charges.

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