It looks like two county-funded district attorneys will be staying in next year’s budget for Outagamie County.
The state added two prosecutors, and County Executive Tom Nelson was looking to eliminate the two the county pays for. He says that’s what he agreed to do, several years ago, when he added them in the first place.
Nelson says it’s the state’s responsibility to pay for prosecutors, and lawmakers haven’t been living up to that promise.
The board’s finance committee decided to keep them, and add a legal assistant in the office.
Supervisor Kevin Sturn is the chair of the committee, and he says it would be nice to get more money from the state. But he says they need to keep cases moving for victims, and people in jail who might be innocent.
The full county board will debate the budget next month.
