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Senate Judiciary narrows request for state's attorneys, sheriff staffing and converts limited‑service roles
Summary
Committee members recommended keeping vacancy-savings language to convert nine limited‑service positions to permanent, and scaled back several staffing requests: proposed six admin paralegals reduced to three, four victim advocates to two, and six transport deputies to three; a fiscal/IT support position was retained.
Senate Judiciary members reviewed a package of staffing requests for state’s attorneys’ offices and sheriff offices and agreed on a pared-down set of priorities to include in a committee letter to the appropriations process.
Committee staff reported the request would convert nine limited‑service positions to permanent status using existing vacancy-savings rather than new appropriation; testimony noted seven of the nine positions were already filled. Members favored…
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