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DeKalb district attorney asks committee to fund 13 positions, warns of digital-forensics and grand-jury backlog
Summary
District Attorney Sherry Boston asked the Finance, Audit and Budget Committee to fund 13 positions ($1,262,942) to sustain a grant-funded human-trafficking investigator, expand a digital forensics unit, add HR and receptionist capacity, and strengthen the grand-jury team amid rising indictments.
District Attorney Sherry Boston told the DeKalb County Finance, Audit and Budget Committee that her office needs 13 additional positions and related equipment at a total fiscal impact of $1,262,942 to keep up with increased case loads and time-sensitive investigative work.
Boston said she had pared an initial request of 20 positions to what she described as the most critical 13. Key requests include continuing a grant-funded human-trafficking investigator (the federal grant was described as expiring in the coming months), adding…
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