MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Mobile City Council is expected to take up a measure to appropriate $1.1 million a year to the District Attorney’s Office.
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It is the state’s responsibility to help fund Alabama’s local district attorney offices, but since the COVID-19 pandemic, District Attorney Keith Blackwood’s office has been backed up with criminal cases and has needed extra help.
“We’ve got a court system that needs four extra judges. By every study that is conducted, those judges will need district attorneys,” said Mobile Mayor Spiro Cheriogotis.
For the past three years, the City of Mobile and Mobile County had an agreement to both contribute funds to the District Attorney’s Office, but that agreement ended. The city now plans to cover the entire amount for the foreseeable future.
This prompted the city and county to come to a three-year financial agreement to help fund the District Attorney’s Office with $500,000 a year each, which the City Council approved in March 2023…