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Sheriff Asks for Help Managing Burr Oak Cemetery
Produced by City Room on Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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The Cook County Sheriff's Office says it needs help managing the chaos at Burr Oak Cemetery.
The Sheriff filed a motion Tuesday asking a Cook County judge to appoint someone to help manage day-to-day operations at the cemetery.
Spokesman Steve Patterson says the Sheriff's Office doesn't have the manpower to run the cemetery and conduct one of the largest criminal investigations in Cook County history.
PATTERSON: There's more than 100,000 people who've already been buried here, and for whom records are in tatters. Someone has to manage that, and it can't be Cook County Sheriff's employees.
The Sheriff's office also wants the court-appointed assistant to help reconstruct Burr Oak's burial records.
Patterson says the court could make that happen Tuesday.
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dorothy A. cooks, Lansing. Michigan // Tuesday, July 14, 2009 @ 6:38 PM
we can never allow this kind of situation to occur ever again. I cant understand how people visiting or attending funerals at burr oak not see something amiss? it is possible to enact laws where more than one set of record keeping exits? What about record inspections? what entity of state and federal government is responsible for regulating the cemetery industry? This situation occurs more than we know, so I pray that others elsewhere will be caught and dealt with before the greed causes another tragedy.
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