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Government

Mar. 4, 2017

Legal aid advocates call for state funding boost

A state senator and a coalition of legal aid groups asked a Senate Budget subcommittee to increase legal aid funding by $30 million during a hearing on Thursday.

By Malcolm Maclachlan
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO — A state senator and a coalition of legal aid groups asked a Senate Budget subcommittee to increase legal aid funding by $30 million during a hearing on Thursday.

"We talk about the courts as though they were a department or an agency, instead of the third branch of government," Sen. Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, told senators holding an informationa...

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