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Douglas County district attorney details staffing, case backlog and data-storage costs
Summary
District Attorney Dakota Loomis briefed commissioners on staff changes, a backlog of cases, technology challenges with PBK and Axon Justice discovery storage, and plans to restore victim-centered services and interagency coordination.
District Attorney Dakota Loomis told the Douglas County Board of County Commissioners on March 5 that his office is working to reduce a backlog of charging decisions, restore interagency relationships and address significant data and storage challenges in the office's case-management and discovery systems.
Loomis said the office has about 600 backlog cases that need charge decisions and prosecutes roughly 1,200 criminal cases a year plus about twice that number in traffic cases. "Roughly right now, we have about 600 backlog cases that need to have charge decisions made on them," Loomis said. He said the office is budgeted for 15.4 full-time attorneys and currently has 13 full-time attorneys plus the district attorney.
Loomis described ongoing operational reorganization and recruitment. He said six new staff had recently joined the office: the district attorney, a chief of staff, an executive assistant and three prosecutors…
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