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District attorneys and PAC press for pay-scale changes, expanded conflict team and Tracker funding
Summary
DA association and the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council asked for a multi-year pay-scale increase for state-paid assistant district attorneys, funding to replenish ADAs lost in circuit splits, expanded conflict prosecutions capacity in South Georgia, and a $1 million Tracker case-management upgrade.
District attorneys and the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council (PAC) told the House appropriations subcommittee on May 20 that state-paid assistant district attorneys are not competitive with other government and private sector legal employers and urged a three-year pay-scale implementation to improve recruitment and retention. DA leaders also asked for funding to restore ADAs following circuit splits and to expand PAC’s conflict-prosecution and resource-prosecutor teams.
Coweta Circuit DA Herb Cranford, speaking as DA Association budget chair, outlined a three-year plan that would raise starting salaries for state-paid ADAs from the current entry level (about $60,580) to roughly $72,000 in year one and would raise the top of the ADA scale to roughly…
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