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Solicitor urges pay-scale parity to retain prosecutors, highlights victim-services and diversion programs
Summary
Solicitor Duffy Stone asked the council to fund a pay scale aligned with county attorney rates to retain experienced prosecutors, highlighted a career criminal unit and a victim services center that has served 2,518 victims, and described diversion programs with a reported 9% recidivism rate for participants.
Solicitor Duffy Stone asked the council to approve his office’s budget request, emphasizing three core program areas that drive his funding needs: a career‑criminal prosecution unit, a county‑based victim services center and an expanding diversion program that includes drug, mental‑health and veterans courts.
Stone said the career criminal prosecution unit—staffed by experienced prosecutors, investigators and analysts—has handled hundreds of cases across the 14th Circuit; he reported that the broader unit has been responsible for 544…
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