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 | | County Attorney Van Valkenburg offers one explanation: “I think that there are lots of instances, particularly outside of Missoula County, where it’s very difficult to get county commissioners to make much of an investment into indigent defense because they don’t see it as a very big priority,” he says. |
 | | She elaborates, however, that Missoula County already has more resources than most counties in the state, “and I don’t want a system that will take away from what I’ve got [in order] to equalize across the state for places that don’t have what I have. |
 | | Missoula County Human Resources Director Steve Johnson says that the Missoula County Public Defender Office’s budget for fiscal year 2005 is a little more than $1 million; the County Attorney’s Office fiscal year 2005 budget is $1.65 million, of which $565,000 accounts for the office’s civil-side salaries. |
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