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Davis County defenders ask committee to cover CLE costs, shore up appeals and contract funding
Summary
Legal defenders told the Davis County Budget Committee they need county support for continuing legal education, larger appeals and investigator budgets, and stable contract funding to avoid service cuts and keep compensation competitive with prosecutors.
At a Davis County Budget Committee meeting, a representative of the county’s legal defenders asked the committee to begin funding the defenders’ continuing legal education (CLE) program and to increase budget lines for appeals, investigators and transcripts, saying mounting appellate workloads and recruitment pressures have strained current resources.
The request, made during the committee’s review of the attorney/defender budget, called for county support for a CLE program that the defender representative said had been paid personally for the past eight to nine years. “I am asking for the first time…I want something for our CLE program,” the defender representative said, adding that personally covering the seminars “is too expensive.” Budget staff clarified that the overall presentation did not request a $300,000 ongoing increase; rather, the…
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