(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Cook County States Attorney Kim Foxx says her office is trying to counter staff shortages and increasing workloads, which is driving some prosecutors to quit their jobs.
Foxx is quick to note that prosecutors’ office across the U.S. are facing the same challenges. She acknowledges some assistant state’s attorneys are leaving, resulting in the lawyers left behind doing more work.
“Anytime you lose anyone, that work has to be absorbed,” Foxx told WBBM Newsradio on Monday. “So, we’re doing everything that we can to try to mitigate that.
“But it is the particular challenge of dealing with a historic case backlog, while in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic, that we are trying to balance.”
Foxx says he office is stepping up hiring efforts, and more attorneys just out of law school are applying.
They’re also looking at salary levels and allowing some work to be done remotely. She calls her staff heroic.
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