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Criminal

Mar. 23, 2010

Staff Layoffs: The Wrong Solution

Learn why the recent layoff of court staff is the wrong approach to alleviating the budgetary deficit.

Louis J. Shapiro

Email: LouisJShapiro@Gmail.com

Louis, a former Los Angeles County Public Defender, is a criminal defense attorney and State Bar-certified criminal law specialist out of Century City. He is also a legal analyst, board member of the California Innocence Project and Project For The Innocence at Loyola Law School, CACJ and LACBA'S Criminal Justice Executive Committee.

Calling laying off 320 court employees a solution to the budgetary deficit is like putting a cast on a patient's healthy foot, when he has an ailing heart.

The reason why there is a deficit is not due to an overstaff-dilemma in the court staff arena. It is because inefficiency is being tolerated on a daily basis. I invite the reader to go to their local courthouse, and spend a few minutes in a criminal courtroom to observe the execution of the daily calendar. You will find that m...

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