BATON ROUGE — A major funding dispute is now headed to court in East Baton Rouge Parish, where Hillar Moore is suing the city-parish government over what he calls inadequate funding for his office.
Moore said in the lawsuit that he has exhausted all other options to secure the money he believes is necessary to fight crime and properly run the District Attorney’s Office.
Last year, voters rejected a tax proposal that would have raised about $22 million annually for the office. Moore said that failure left him with no choice but to seek funding through the courts, arguing the money is required by law…