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Monroe County Council clears two law-clerk hires, tables broader hiring-freeze change
Summary
After heated debate about whether paid law-clerk interns should be exempt from a countywide hiring freeze, the council approved two immediate law-clerk hires (vote 5–2) and voted to table a wider amendment to the hiring-freeze resolution until Jan. 27 for the judges to explain the practice.
Monroe County Council on Jan. 13 approved two law-clerk hires the courts had put in motion but stopped short of broadly exempting judges from a countywide hiring freeze.
In a contentious discussion that stretched for more than an hour, staff member Turner King proposed adding language to Resolution 2025-42 to allow Monroe County judges to "select law clerk interns who are paid as part time employees and whose hours are capped at 10 hours per week" as an exemption to the hiring freeze.…
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