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Public Defender Council seeks funding for juvenile conflict manager and West Georgia staffing; describes caseload and contract rates
Summary
Georgia Public Defender Council requested funding to backfill a juvenile conflict division manager position and to provide temporary funding for new West Georgia public defender staff; officials described starting salaries, caseload differences and contractor rates for complex cases.
Representatives of the Georgia Public Defender Council (GPDC) told the subcommittee they are requesting funding to cover a juvenile conflict-division manager position established in a supplemental appropriation and to provide six months of funding for a public defender, investigator and administrative staff in the newly split West Georgia Judicial Circuit.
GPDC representatives said the juvenile conflict division manager post (requested at $226,517 in the tracking sheet) was filled last fiscal year but has been paid from existing GPDC accounts while awaiting the supplemental budget appropriation.…
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