Los Angeles Courts Partly Close for First of 12 Furlough Days
On Wednesday, Los Angeles courts partly shut down for the first of 12 furlough days imposed to save an estimated $18 million.
About 93 percent of the court’s employees took the day off without pay, but courts stayed open for emergency matters, the National Law Journal reports. Judges weren’t required to take furloughs.
Presiding Judge Charles “Tim” McCoy had ordered the furloughs in May, jumping ahead of a statewide proposal to shut down courts one day a month to help deal with California’s budget crisis.
“From a management perspective, it was well executed,” McCoy told the National Law Journal. “We had very little disruption. Mostly, it was from a very small number of people who didn’t get the word. But frankly, I was pleasantly surprised by how well the public had been informed that this was coming.”
Other California courts that are instituting furloughs are in the counties of Mendocino, Orange and San Francisco.
