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DAs discuss court staff shortages and their impact on case processing
6:18:20
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District Attorneys highlight the impact of court staff shortages on case processing:
- Statewide shortage of court reporters, which are essential for case proceedings
- Lack of sufficient court officers
- Shortage of judges
- These shortages in the Office of Court Administration (OCA) significantly slow down case processing
Darcel Clark
6:18:20
Well, as a former as a former judge, I could tell you, there's a shortage of court reporters statewide.
6:18:25
They don't have enough court reporters.
6:18:27
So you can't do a case without a reporter there.
6:18:29
They don't have enough court officers.
6:18:32
That holds it up and there's a shortage of judges as well.
6:18:35
There's a lot of things that's happening in OCA that they need to help in order to build it up.
6:18:41
That would speed up the cases for us as well, but they have to have the capacity to process you know, to handle the cases and there's a lot of shortcomings there.
Eric Gonzalez
6:18:49
Yeah.