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Judicial branch May revision trims pretrial funding and proposes jury program reversions
Summary
The May revision to the judicial branch budget includes one-time transfers, reductions to pretrial release funding, reversion of unspent jury-pilot funds and other technical changes; LAO and committee members flagged potential impacts on pretrial services and court operations.
Department of Finance and the Judicial Council presented the May revision proposals for the judicial branch, which include a mix of one-time transfers, ongoing reductions and statutory changes.
Mark Jimenez of the Department of Finance told the subcommittee the May revision includes a proposed $38 million one-time transfer of unrestricted trial court trust fund balances to the general fund, a $20 million general fund reduction to the pretrial release program (from about $70 million to $50 million ongoing), and a reversion of up to $27.5 million of unspent jury duty…
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