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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Staffing levels and caseloads in the Queens DA's office
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DA Katz provides detailed information about the current staffing levels and caseloads in her office, highlighting the increase in personnel since her election and the high volume of cases handled by each ADA.
- Reports an increase of 96 ADAs since her election, bringing the total to 408 ADAs
- States that the office has about 950 total staff members
- Explains that each ADA handles an average of 170 cases per year, with variations between misdemeanor and felony ADAs
Melinda Katz
4:59:03
In my office we have 96 more people, more ADAs than we did when I was elected, by the way, five and a half years ago.
4:59:11
It's amazing how long ago that was at this point.
4:59:14
I'm in my sixth year as DA.
4:59:16
We have four zero eight ADAs that work in the office.
4:59:20
We have about nine fifty staff members.
4:59:23
We have increased, like I said, by 96 to four zero eight ADAs.
4:59:27
We're handling approximately, every ADA is handling approximately 170 cases when you average it out through the year.
4:59:36
My misdemeanor ADAs are handling about 150 cases each one.
4:59:41
My felony ADAs depending on the bureau that they are in handling half to a quarter of that, which is still a lot of cases that we are handling on a daily basis with the funding, which I thank you for by the way, every year that the city gives us.
5:00:00
In that though, we have about $2,000,000 in federal funding that comes down the pike every year.