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Senate approves extra juvenile judgeship after debate over caseloads and cost
Summary
The Utah Senate on Jan. 27 passed Substitute Senate Bill 73 to add a juvenile court judgeship in the Fourth District and adopted an amendment adding another judge for an adjacent district; senators debated caseload statistics and fiscal impact before approving the amendment and final bill.
The Utah Senate on Jan. 27 approved Substitute Senate Bill 73 to add juvenile court judgeships, citing rapidly rising juvenile caseloads in several districts.
Senator Ellen Money, who sponsored the measure, said the bill would "put a new new new juvenile judge in, the Fourth District," citing increases in workload that she described as "an increase of capacity load a 48%" and later saying another figure had "increased a 96%." She said the new judge is needed to address the local backlog and impacts in Utah…
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