Q&A
Role and responsibilities of executive general counsel at CCHR
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3 min
Council Member Nantasha M. Williams inquires about the role of executive general counsel in implementing new bills and how it differs from other attorney roles at CCHR. CCHR representatives explain the structure and responsibilities of these positions.
- Executive agency counsel is a civil service title with 10 managerial levels.
- At CCHR, executive agency counsel includes supervising attorneys overseeing cases, case attorneys handling individual cases, and staff in the Office of the Chair doing legal guidance and appeals work.
- In fiscal year 2024, CCHR had 6 supervising attorneys, each managing a caseload of approximately 20 cases in addition to supervising staff attorneys.
- The term 'executive general counsel' is synonymous with 'executive agency counsel' at CCHR.
Nantasha M. Williams
1:48:40
to have that role.
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Okay.
1:48:43
On to the legislation, the commission has said that for several of the bills being heard today, if they were enacted, CCHR would need to add an executive general counsel to implement them.
1:48:59
Can can you please describe the role of an executive general counsel and how it differs from a supervising attorney role?
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And then can you describe the role in executive general counsel and imp implementation in each of the following bills if they were to be enacted, intro 808 a, intro 871, and intro 1064?
JoAnn Kamuf Ward
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So as I was saying, the fiscal impact statements are looking at each bill on their on their own.
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So if this bill were to come into play, this is all the things that would be needed for this particular bill.
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As the budget process moves on, we identify, is there already someone at the agency doing that job that can take this on?
1:49:38
So I think the fiscal impact statement is not, like, a a true measure of what it means for CCHR staff.
1:49:45
So I'll start I'll start by saying that.
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I can talk about the executive agency council role.
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It's a civil service title.
1:49:56
So that is something that is set separately than than my role.
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Do you want to talk through the fiscal impact statements of each bill?
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Is that what you're asking?
Nantasha M. Williams
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If you can do it briefly, sure.
1:50:11
I think we just were trying to understand, like, what the nature of the the role would be for an executive general counsel.
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Like, what would they do that would be any different from a internal title for an executive agency counsel.
1:50:18
So executive agency counsel is is, like,
JoAnn Kamuf Ward
1:50:34
there's 10 managerial levels that fall within executive agency counsel.
1:50:39
What we have identified for these bills and the way our agency is structured is that we have supervising attorneys who obviously oversee cases.
1:50:46
We have case attorneys who are handling individual cases.
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Executive agency counsel at our agency also includes people on the office of the chair team who do some of the legal guidance work and, other appeals work.
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It's all we have other people who also hold that role.
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So it's it's it's just It's synonymous.
Nantasha M. Williams
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It's a synonymous term.
JoAnn Kamuf Ward
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The supervising attorneys are executive agency councils.
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Okay.
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Thank you.
Nantasha M. Williams
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How many executive general councils or supervising attorneys worked at the commission in fiscal year 2024, and how many CCHR staff currently hold that title?
JoAnn Kamuf Ward
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I don't have that information today, so we'll have to follow-up on most of the questions related to staffing.
1:51:29
We're gonna have to follow-up
Katherine Carroll
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with you.
Nantasha M. Williams
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Okay.
1:51:31
I'll just ask them.
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Sure.
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If you don't have the answers, just send it to us when you do.
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The other question is, what is the typical case load for an executive general counsel?
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I have that.
Katherine Carroll
1:51:46
The for the supervising attorneys, for f y 24, we had 6 on staff.
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And as my colleague was mentioning, they supervised individual staff attorneys, but each of them also carried a caseload of approximately 20 cases.
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But then as it relates to the other people that hold those titles outside of law enforcement, they obviously don't have a caseload in the same way.
1:52:07
So it the breakdown is a little bit different.
