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.
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…