NCJ Number
236574
Date Published
January 2011
Length
88 pages
Annotation
This report from the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission presents fiscal year 2010 expenditure information on Arizona's Fill the Gap legislation.
Abstract
Highlights of fiscal year (FY) 2010 expenditure information for Arizona's Fill the Gap (FTG) legislation include: most county attorneys and indigent defense attorneys experiences decreases in FTG funding in FY 2010, with funding for the Rural Aid to County Attorneys and Indigent Defense programs being completely eliminated from the budget; prosecuting agencies in all but two counties had a decrease in funding of approximately 38 percent, while indigent defense agencies experienced a decrease in funding of almost 63 percent; and of the total amount of FTG expenditures was $2,346,066 for FY2010; of the total amount of expenditures, $1.8 million was spent on staff salaries, just over $81,000 was spent on equipment, just over $225,000 was spent on contractual services, and almost $94,000 was spent on case management. This report from the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission presents FY2010 expenditure data for the State's Fill the Gap legislation. In response to Arizona's increasing population, the State legislature passed the FTG legislation to provide funding to prosecuting agencies, indigent defense agencies, and the courts to reduce case processing times in each county and across the State. Data for the report are collected on an annual basis from each funded entity. Information is collected on how the FTG funds are spent, how the funds improved criminal case processing, case processing statistics, and comments on related issues encountered by the agencies during the year. The information in the report is presented for each funded county and the funded agencies within that county. Tables, figures, and appendixes