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Cochise County attorney details border‑crime surge, requests new ADRS legal‑secretary position
Summary
County Attorney Lori Zuko told the Board of Supervisors a post‑2021 surge in border‑related felony cases and new electronic reporting mandates have strained staff; she requested funding for one ADRS legal‑secretary 2 to meet reporting and CJIS requirements.
County Attorney Lori Zuko told the Cochise County Board of Supervisors at an Oct. work session that a surge in border‑related felony cases since 2021 and a state mandate to electronically report case dispositions have strained the county attorney’s office and prompted a request for one additional ADRS legal‑secretary 2 position.
Zuko said the office started separately tracking “border crime cases” in PBK in 2022 and that filings and the workload spiked after a replacement human‑smuggling statute was enacted in September 2022. “We did get some DEMA money…we were not able to hire someone for the 110. Nobody would come down here to do that for that salary,” Zuko said, referring to an unfunded attempt to hire a dedicated border‑crime prosecutor and subsequent temporary staffing funded by the sheriff’s grant.
The county attorney’s office asked supervisors to fund a legal‑secretary 2 to perform Arizona Disposition Reporting System (ADRS) work that the office says is required by state…
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