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Board approves office reconfiguration to give victim advocate a secure front‑office workspace
Summary
The Board approved moving a door and installing card-swipe access to create a secure office adjacent to victim interview rooms in the prosecutor’s office; the prosecutor asked that some victims-rights funds be used for access hardware and defended recent conference reimbursements to a contracted employee.
Prosecutor Tom Genster asked the Montcalm County Board of Commissioners to allow a small structural change in the prosecutor’s office to create a secure office for the county victim’s rights advocate.
Genster said two adjacent conference rooms already serve for victim and witness interviews but that the advocate’s office is located farther down a secure hallway, forcing staff to escort victims back and forth. He proposed shifting a wall and door frame roughly 4½ feet to make the advocate’s office immediately adjacent to the interview area. The change would also allow installing a…
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