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Comptroller: data gaps delay updated weighted‑caseload study for district attorneys and public defenders
Summary
Comptroller officials told legislators that improvements in general sessions court data are needed before the office can update the weighted caseload study for district attorneys and public defenders; a separate update for state trial-court judges is already underway with AOC and a vendor.
Russell Moore, director of Research and Education Accountability in the Comptroller's office, told the Finance, Ways and Means Committee that updating the weighted caseload study for district attorneys and public defenders requires reliable general sessions court data from several large judicial districts. He said the last time weights were updated for DAs and PDs was 1999 and the last published study for that group was fiscal 2006.
Moore said the primary data gap comes from three large jurisdictions that have not implemented compatible software to…
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