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Judge tells Clay County commissioners new judges, magistrate and clerk staffing will add costs
Summary
Clay County's administrative judge asked commissioners for an additional magistrate and described recent legislative additions of judicial seats; staff warned clerks received no extra funding to support new judges.
Clay County's administrative judge addressed the Board of County Commissioners at the July 8 workshop to explain a recent expansion of judicial seats and to request funding support for court operations that the judge and clerk say the state did not fully finance.
The judge said the Florida Legislature created an additional county judge seat for Clay and two new circuit seats in the Fourth Judicial Circuit (Nassau, Duval and Clay counties). The judge said a judicial nominating commission will accept applications and the governor…
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