Criminal
May 17, 2016
Riverside voters to decide on adding prosecutors to city attorney's office
Riverside city attorney promotes the measure as an opportunity for community outreach, while the district attorney says the benefits of handing over responsibilities for misdemeanor cases does not outweigh the costs.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Riverside residents will vote in June on an advisory measure that would allow the city to shift misdemeanor cases from the district attorney's office to the city attorney, creating a new unit of about 10 prosecutors.
City Attorney Gary Geuss promotes the measure as an opportunity for community outreach, calling the proposed new division "the neighborhood prosecutor prog...
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