JFC approves $10.1 million GPR boost for DOJ, but pares back Evers proposal, Legal Services

The Joint Finance Committee approved a $10.1 million GPR boost to the Department of Justice that would include providing assistant attorneys general raises of 2 percent each in 2020 and 2021 while adding nine positions to the state crime lab. But Tony Evers had proposed 14 new positions in the crime lab, and the GOP motion didn’t sign off on the three new positions for digital forensics the guv wa...