PIERRE — (KCCR) — The Indigent Legal Services Task Force continues to look at ways to provide legal representation to those who can’t afford it while trying to take a big bite out of overwhelmed county budgets. District 24 Senator Jim Mehlhaff serves on the task force and says the group has had to pull back some on their vision…
Mehlhaff says the group is proposing a couple of ideas to put counties back in a better spot financially…
Mehlhaff has opposed the idea of cities chipping in to defer costs since most arrests come from within municipalities…
The only legislators on the Indigent Legal Services Task Force are Mehlhaff and District 24 Representative Will Mortenson.
