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Commissioners press judges for accountability as proposed judicial supplements prompt questions
Summary
Dallas County commissioners spent an extended portion of their Aug. 20 session arguing over how to tie county judicial pay supplements to performance standards, and whether to use Office of Court Administration (OCA) measures or let judges set criteria; no supplement policy was adopted.
A lengthy debate on Aug. 20 among Dallas County elected officials examined whether county supplements for judges should be conditional on published performance standards, with commissioners split over legal constraints and possible unintended consequences.
Commissioner John Wiley Price repeatedly urged a system that would make judges’ timeliness and preparedness visible to the public, saying the county’s legal supplement has been used before and the public deserves accountability. Price proposed asking judges to set an accountability level and publishing a dashboard using Office of Court Administration (OCA)…
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