With 96 percent of the state’s judicial branch budget targeted for salaries, any lapse in funding by the Legislature would be troubling, District Judge Dan Creitz told Iola Rotarians Thursday.
Fiscal year 2016 starts July 1 and faces a $600 million deficit.
Creitz said his court and all others among the 31 judicial districts, as well as state-level courts, might be faced with working until funds run out — and then shutting down.
That could be devastating, he said. Courts would be obligated to release inmates awaiting court…
Judge: Cuts could be ‘dire’
