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District attorney budgets for Axon Justice to streamline discovery, asks for new staffing
Summary
The district attorney told the committee the 2026 budget includes funds to adopt Axon Justice for discovery processing (body-camera and digital evidence), modest salary increases, and revenue from deferred-prosecution fees; committee approved the budget.
District Attorney Solis told the finance committee the office's 2026 budget includes a data-processing increase (about $82,000) to implement Axon Justice software that will allow the office to ingest and process body-camera and other digital evidence from law enforcement partners.
"We can then process our discovery. We can process the body camera that law enforcement officers have," Solis said, noting several local agencies already use Axon and that more agencies may migrate to the platform in coming years. Solis said the software would reduce staff time needed to prepare discovery and could limit the need for an additional paralegal.
The budget request also includes program revenue assumptions tied to deferred prosecution agreements; Solis said other counties charge fees in the $300 to $500 range for those agreements and the office expects roughly $40,000 in such revenue for 2026.
Supervisors asked about staffing levels: the DA said the office currently has 12.5 assistant district attorneys and is budgeted for 21.5 positions (including two to 2.5 additional ADAs expected in October); county staff clarified state-paid ADAs are not counted as county employees in the same way. The committee approved the district attorney budget by voice vote.
The DA's office said it will attend the budget resolution meeting to answer follow-up questions about staffing.
