Overview

• Georgia is primarily locally funded. The state funds salaries and benefits for the appellate courts, the AOC, general jurisdiction trial court judges, some juvenile court judges, judicial education, law assistants, judicial assistants, district court administrators and a handful of trial court administrators.

Reports and Articles

• Patrick Stoker. "Court Budget Constraints could be Eased." GainesvilleTimes.com. January 23, 2012
• Dean Dyer.  "Court Funding Dispute Pits Judge Against White Co."  WRWH.  September 29, 2011.
• Camie Young.  "Budget Cuts Could Jeopardize Gwinnett Courts, Judge Says."  Gwinnett Daily Post.  September 12, 2011.
• "Impact Study Finds Judicial Funding Cuts Costly to Georgia's Economy."  State Bar of Georgia.  February 2011.
• Lydia Senn.  "Magistrate Court Swamped After Filing Costs Increase in State, Superior Courts."  Rome News-Tribune.  January 9, 2011.
• E. Wycliffe Orr.  "Short Sighted Cuts to Judiciary Will Weaken Justice in Georgia."  Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  January 11, 2010.
• Randy Lynn.  "Judges Speak Out about Propsed Budget Cuts."  CBS Atlanta. December 17, 2009.
• Patrick Fox.  "Courts, DA Plead Case Against budget Cuts."  Atlanta Journal Constitution. October 14, 2009.
• Patrick Fox. "Gwinnett Judges Volunteer for Three Days Without Pay." Atlanta Journal Constitution. September 11, 2009.
• Paulo Prada and Cory Dade. "Cases Pile Up in Georgia Courts ." Wall Street Journal. September 8, 2009.
• Megan Matteucci . "Georgia Supreme Court Justices Volunteer to Take 3 Unpaid Days." Atlanta Journal-Constitution. September 3, 2009.
• Don Logana. "Governor Perdue calls for Superior Court Furlough." WTOC.com. June 3, 2009.
• Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears. 2009 State of the Judiciary Address. Supreme Court of Georgia. February 4, 2009.

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