Courts concerned with minimal funding increase
Even with assistance from the Mobile County Commission, presiding Judge John Lockett says local courts have been struggling to get by, and he only expects things to get worse. Currently, the only thing funding more than a dozen “attendant” and “legal research assistant” positions in local circuit and district courtrooms is a 2017 county appropriation of $392,000. While the courts are local, they are funded as a function of the state of Alabama. However, all three commissioners made it clear last year the county would not continue to pick up the state’s slack, and Lockett said he has no...
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