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CJCC discusses high individual service costs and whether additional court capacity could help
Summary
Members raised the role of service costs and court capacity in system pressures — noting some single cases can be extremely costly — and discussed whether an additional court branch might relieve systemic strain and affect pretrial compliance and behavioral-health outcomes.
A council member asked the CJCC to track the cost of the most expensive services and the count of people using them so the council can identify high-cost, low-volume cases that disproportionately draw resources. Attorney Stern emphasized cost-of-services as a priority and noted that a single case can be extremely expensive to manage.
"One person can be 1000000 bucks a year," Stern said, as an example of how costly services or placements can be. Separately, Stern raised the idea of considering a partial ("0.2") circuit court branch to examine whether court capacity limitations are contributing to delays, pretrial compliance problems and gaps in services.
