A few years ago, the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) began overbilling local taxpayers for juvenile detention costs — just flat-out overcharging them. Imagine if your electric company or water utility did that to you, again and again. DJJ’s overbilling is the result of a bureaucratic mistake, not any policy or legal changes. Consequently, Florida’s local communities are stuck overpaying millions for juvenile detention costs, shortchanging local parks, libraries or tax-cut packages in the name of bureaucratic waste. Unbelievably, this billing fiasco has gone on for almost a decade, causing battles between state bureaucrats and Florida’s counties — battles that should not be necessary in the first place.