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Renton city attorney seeks legal staff to handle growing contract and prosecution workload; flags public defense standard risks
Summary
City Attorney Shane Maloney sought new legal assistants and an assistant city attorney to address burnout, rising video-evidence burdens and greater contract complexity; he warned that proposed public defense standards under Supreme Court consideration could increase local prosecution workload and budget pressure.
Shane Maloney, Renton’s City Attorney, told the Committee of the Whole the office is requesting additional staffing to maintain current service levels amid growing workloads. He said the prosecution division has seen burnout—particularly among staff handling domestic-violence cases—and that video evidence from multiple body-camera angles has substantially increased personnel and storage demands.
"We had burnout, in DV related cases...and we've had a massive increase in video evidence…
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