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Pardons and Parole commissioners seek higher pay; agency warns of turnover and unpaid prep time
Summary
The Commission of Pardons and Parole requested a statutory pay increase for commissioners from $300 to $400 per hearing day and replacement laptops; the commission’s new director said commissioners do substantial unpaid preparation time and that planned turnover could exceed half the panel by year’s end.
The Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole asked the Joint Finance Preparations Committee to support a statutory increase in commissioner pay from $300 to $400 per hearing day and to fund replacement laptops.
Christine Starr, executive director of the Commission of Pardons and Parole, told the committee that commissioners currently are paid only for hearing days and not for the several days of preparation the hearing schedules require. “They’re actually putting in 26 hours of preparation for the five days of…
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