RIGHT-SIZING THE COURTS: Legislative judiciary committee advises hiring more judges, reallocating existing resources

By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen October 4, 2024 In addition to recommending that four Indiana counties receive the extra judicial officers they had asked for, the Indiana General Assembly’s Interim Study Committee on Courts and the Judiciary advised the legislature to consider reallocating resources, rather than always adding more judges and new courts. The study committee approved its report to the legislature as part of its second and final hearing on Thursday. Included in the report were recommendations that Elkhart, Hamilton, Lawrence and Vigo counties all receive the additional judges, magistrate judges and courts they had requested at the committee’s first hearing ...