Countywide : D.A. Seeks $280,000 to Aid Prosecutions
The district attorney’s office has applied for more than $280,000 from the state to continue a program that tracks robbery and burglary suspects through the court system.
The $282,915 will help pay for the salaries of two deputy district attorneys, one investigator and one assistant investigator, all of whom would monitor cases from conception until completion, in what the district attorney’s office refers to as “vertical prosecution.”
“Usually, it’s the same individual perpetrating the same kind of crime over and over and over,” said Karen Davis, the director of administration for the district attorney’s office. “This program detects those criminals and gets them off the streets.”
The program has been funded for 15 years by the Office of Criminal Justice Planning in Sacramento.
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