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The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office may be losing several key jobs due to federal funding cuts. The jobs that are in jeopardy of going away include three victim advocates and an attorney who handles the office’s most serious cases, including sexual assault and domestic violence. This is the first time in 15 years the D.A.’s Office is not getting any grant funding through the federal Violence Against Women Act. That funding pays for the attorney. The D.A.’s Office is expecting to lose more than 780-thousand-dollars in federal funding that pays for the jobs. On Wednesday, District Attorney Carla Rodriguez asked the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors to step up and provide the funding instead, so those jobs are saved.