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District attorneys and public defenders press lawmakers for more staff and pay equity amid caseload concerns
Summary
The District Attorneys General Conference and the District Public Defenders Conference briefed the committee on staffing and funding needs, urging expanded positions, salary adjustments and sustained funding to address high caseloads, declining federal victim‑services dollars and recruitment/retention challenges.
The Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference and the Tennessee District Public Defenders Conference presented staffing requests and described workload pressure in front of the House Finance, Ways and Means Committee.
Steven Crump, executive director of the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference, summarized the DA offices’ requests and thanked the governor for funding many of their statutory step and hardware requests in the proposed budget. He described a recent survey of prosecutors’ needs across the state and said the conference’s asks were compiled from each elected district attorney: “The way we arrived at those positions, we surveyed each individual district, and we asked the district attorney in that district to tell us what your needs are.”
Crump emphasized the…
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