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Probation fee waivers erode predictable revenue, county staff tell commissioners
Summary
Cowlitz County staff told commissioners that an increasing trend of waiving probation fees under court indigency rules is making district-court revenue harder to predict, even as probation workloads remain steady.
County staff told commissioners at a Jan. 8 budget workshop that an uptick in requests to waive probation fees is reducing predictable revenue for district court probation services while officers continue to provide supervision.
The district court representative said judges and court rules increasingly require waivers of legal financial obligations, commonly called LFOs, when a person is deemed indigent,…
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