Two Judges criticize closing Calif courts for a day a month

Sacramento Bee ^

[pelicandriver]

Most Californians know a budget crisis besets our state. But they are only now learning a state bureaucracy in San Francisco, the Administrative Office of the Courts, plans to close every county courthouse on the third Wednesday of each month.

----------

In 2003-04 the Administrative Office of the Courts had 490 employees. Today it has mushroomed to more than 900 employees, a third of them paid more than $100,000. Recently the Administrative Office of the Courts and Judicial Council spent $82,000 on dinners, San Francisco Hilton Hotel suites (including the Presidential Suite), and a professional "facilitator" at a conference called to discuss the budget.

[albie]

San Francisco should only be open 1 day a month.