Forced by lawsuit, Broward Clerk of Courts agrees to stop shortchanging PD's office on fees
By Noreen Marcus, Florida Bulldog.org
Broward Public Defender Gordon Weekes had to waste $468,000 of his operating budget on suing Clerk of Courts Brenda Forman and forcing her to adopt rules to ensure that millions of dollars in PD client fees reach the PD.
Neither Forman nor apparently any court clerk this century had written up such obvious guidelines. Finally, on Oct. 8, Broward Circuit Judge David Haimes approved a settlement between the two elected officials that should restore a big chunk of the public defender’s funding.
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