Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is asking legislators for a more than one-point-six MILLION dollar budget boost so she can hire seven more attorneys. Over $300,000 would fund one prosecutor to investigate financial crimes.
Bird is asking for another $825,000 to add four more full-time staff attorneys in her office.
Bird says it’s far more expensive to pay private attorneys to handle these types of cases, many of them from people trying to get a criminal conviction overturned. And half a million would go to hiring two attorneys and a paralegal to primarily deal with high profile lawsuits seeking to overturn state laws.
If the legislature approves this part of Bird’s budget request, she would have these three staffers help with consumer protection cases her office handles.
