Attorneys say Dallas County’s criminal justice system has been at a near standstill for about two weeks because of problems related to a new case management...
County officials said Friday that the problems could take at least a month to fully resolve.
“It made it more difficult for people to do their jobs, because they did not want to go to the county clerk’s office and the district clerk’s office, which is where they would have found that information,” Warren said Friday. Warren said that users can still access the older files on Forvus, but they cannot get more detailed information on each case.
Criminal defense attorney Edwin “Bubba” King, a former state district judge in Dallas County, scoffed at what he said was a decision to sunset the old system before the new one was fully operational. He called it “ridiculous.”One public defender, Michaela Himes, said at the May 26 jail population committee meeting that the problem is leading to more time in jail for inmates waiting for justice.
“I find that difficult to believe,” she said. “If so, the public defender’s office needs to reach out to us.” Dallas County receives more than a million dollars a year in state grants. The deadline to apply for these grants is August 1 and the county has to make the 90% threshold by then, Crouch said.
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