HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Feb. 10, 2022) – One item mentioned in the Whitmer Administration’s proposed Fiscal 2023 state budget is getting kudos from Michigan’s judicial community.
The Governor wants to allocate $175 million for the creation of a single, statewide case management system “to better track and process court cases,” according to the power-point presentation that Budget Director Chris Harkins showed to a joint state House & Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Wednesday. It was part of a recommendation by a Trial Court Funding Commission that would replace 20 different and disconnected systems with one statewide system, and it can’t come soon enough, according to 58th District Court Chief Judge Brad Knoll in Holland.
“A lot of times I would like to see data collected on certain types of crimes where they’re more prevelant,” Knoll said on “WHTC Talk of the Town” during a Thursday appearance, “how quickly cases are moving through, and it would be much easier with this modernized judicial information system, just to have all that information available for us.”
Whether the Republican-controlled Legislature concurs with the proposal by Governor Whitmer, an East Lansing Democrat, by the time the new fiscal year begins on October 1st remains to be seen.
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