SACRAMENTO — State judicial leaders on Thursday announced that they will eliminate a number of executive perks in response to a recent audit that criticized branch administrators for spending lavishly on salaries, benefits and consultants during years of bleak budget-cutting in the courts.
The move marks the first substantive response by the judiciary to Auditor Elaine Howle’s January report, which concluded that the branch’s administrative arm, known until recently as the Administrative Office of the Courts, may have wasted tens of millions of dollars that could have gone to trial courts that were shuttering courthouses and slashing public service hours.
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