Judges and Judiciary
Feb. 13, 2015
Courts losing money under new funding method cry foul
As the judicial branch's Workload-based Allocation and Funding Methodology enters its third year, historically better funded courts that are seeing their funding squeezed say it's time for judges to review the funding formula.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
As a gradual plan to ease disparities in how the state judiciary divides funding among its 58 trial courts enters its third year, Santa Clara, Alameda and San Francisco County courts are among those set to see a net budget cut in spite of Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to send $90 million in new funding to trial courts in the coming fiscal year.
When the Judicial Council in 2013 approved a new budget f...
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