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Budgets cuts have had massive retrogressive effects on the country at large. However, the most affected sector has been the justice systems in all the American states. California, however, has borne the most damaging effects of the budgets cuts to the justice systems (Donatello, 2012). This means that most of the justice services that most of the citizens had access to in the state of California, are now not as accessible. The courts and other legal offices are forced to dial down on some services, leading to poor delivery along the corridor of justice. Currently, the justice systems of California have to deal with the crisis in the best ways they can and try to avert the detrimental effects to the state and the citizens (Robert, 2013).
Amanda Robert, in his article coined the "California courts continue cuts, closures”, tries to bring out the elements of the justice crisis subjects to the budget cuts in the last few years. In the article, the author states that there has been more than $1 billion dollars in budgets cuts to the justice system, in the last five years, a status that is confirmed by the Judicial Council of California. At the same time, the courts have lost more than 65% of their funding which used to come from the General Funds of the state. This details the massive cuts that have gone into the court systems and are bound to have some detrimental effects on the delivery of services to the citizens of the state of California. Over the same period of time, there have been more than 22 court houses that have been closed, 114 courtrooms have also been closed, while more than 30 courts in the state have cut down on the number of hours they can work relative to the poor funding scheme (Robert, 2013).
According to the article, the Los Angeles county court, which happens to be the largest court system in the state, is also experiencing some of the most detrimental effects (Robert, 2013). The court recently announced that it would get rid of some 500 positions as it tries to cut down on the spending relative to the amount money it is receiving. This is bound to have massive effects on the justice delivery in the state, given the relevance of the court to the court systems of the state. When the positions were eliminated, more than 117 persons lost their employment, more than 139 were demoted to the positions that they held earlier and more than 223 had to be reassigned to other areas across the state to distribute the cost of running the justice system (Dolan, 2011). The court also made indications that it going to make sure that it reduces more than 24% of all of the positions that were budgetary allocated, before following the budget cuts that started in 2008 on the eve of world economic crisis. Other than closing courthouses and rooms, the court is also going to see to it that they eliminate the court reporters within the civil courts as well as doing away with the referees within the juvenile courts (Schwartz, 2014).
Following the economic crashes of 2008, there were losses in the amount of income collected from real estates and at the same time the government was not in a position to raise money to replenish the general fund. A the funding dwindled in 2009 to 2011, the court systems were forced to cut down on the cost of running their business including laying off some of the staff, freezing employment and borrowing from the reserves to offset the balances left behind by the budgets cuts. As a result, the current state of the courts is deplorable. Most of the courts do not have judges and several of the courthouses and rooms are still closed, prompting some of the courts to use the trial courts to beat the budget cuts while still trying to offer quality services (Donatello, 2012). However, these cuts have come at the expense of the citizens as they now have to drive around much longer as they look for a court house to presents their cases. When one does find a court house, they have to wait for long hours to be attended as there are long queues from all over the counties.
According to the author of the article, the budgets may have been necessary, but the manner in which they were carried out still leaves a lot to be desired (McCarthy, 2011). This is to means that, after the 2008 economic crisis, it was inevitable to cut down on the budget allocation in the various sectors of the economy. However, the justice system is one of the most crucial sectors in the economy, more so when the economy is not doing so well (Dolan, 2011). The budgets cuts which were well intended, have now been overdone and killing the justice system over time by reducing the efficiency and quality of services. The author recommends that there should be more funds to the courts to increase the level of efficiency and avoid running the justice system around.
I conclude that the budgets cuts in the case of California have...