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District attorney offers VOCA funds to offset county payroll and create intake clerk; commission tables request for work session
Summary
Camden County District Attorney proposed using Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grant funds to offset county payroll costs for two victim advocates and to fund an intake clerk; commissioners raised staffing, jail backlog, and budget-control concerns and voted to table the proposal pending a work session.
Camden County's district attorney told commissioners he can use VOCA (Victims of Crime Act) grant funds to offset county payroll costs for victim advocates and to fund a county intake clerk, but the commission voted to table the proposal for a later work session to gather more information.
DA Keith Higgins told the commission his office receives a VOCA award totaling $132,493 annually for the judicial circuit and proposed dispersing roughly half of those funds to Camden County to cover part of the salary and benefits for victim advocates and to create…
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