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Municipal and Traffic Court asks council to fund IT director, caseworkers as online case resolution moves forward
Summary
Judge Bobby Jones, presiding judge of the Municipal and Traffic Court, told the City Council the court is seeking a 10% increase in its personnel budget to hire an IT director and additional case managers as it prepares to return to its Broad Street courthouse and launch online case resolution.
Judge Bobby Jones, presiding judge of the Municipal and Traffic Court, told the City Council the court is seeking a 10% increase in its personnel budget to hire an IT director and additional case managers as it prepares to return to its Broad Street courthouse and launch online case resolution.
The court has been operating in temporary space at the former VA hospital since Hurricane Ida displaced it; Jones said the facility suffered chronic plumbing and electrical failures and that operations were shuttered for nine weeks this year. "2024 represents the third year of our displacement by Hurricane Ida," Jones said, noting the court expects to return to Broad Street within months.
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