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19th Judicial District Court warns deferred maintenance, staff and state-case costs strain parish budget
Summary
Miss Gibbons told the Metro Council the 19th JDC relies on roughly $6 million in city-parish funding for salaries and faces significant courthouse maintenance needs; court leaders say unpaid state-filed cases and appellate delays create an annual local burden estimated at $750,000–$1,000,000.
Miss Gibbons, speaking for the nineteenth Judicial District Court, told the Metro Council the court serves all of East Baton Rouge Parish and is largely supported by two city-parish budget lines: salaries and benefits (about $6,000,000) and courthouse maintenance. She said the court has deferred maintenance, including a leaking roof, and faces staffing that the court described as roughly 85–90 full‑time employees, 15 judges and four commissioners.
The court presented caseload figures to illustrate demand: an average of about 5,500 criminal cases over the past three years across eight criminal divisions and roughly 17,500 civil filings annually. Miss Gibbons said commissioners’ court…
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