KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan is urging state lawmakers to give them $230-million to help get rid of what they are calling a “desperate shortage” of prosecutors in the state.
Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Getting says his office is short-staffed due to being chronically underfunded and has two assistant prosecutor jobs open for nearly the past two years.
Getting says his felony trial attorneys are handing double the cases they should, and his misdemeanor lawyers are prosecuting two to three times the number of cases that they should.
Each county would receive around $2.7 million under PAAM’s proposal but the money is not in the proposed budget from Governor Whitmer.
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