Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office is seeing a degree of turnover that’s raising alarms among the criminal justice community. One recent high-profile departure has only added to the outcry.
Since the COVID pandemic, many people have changed their outlook on work, a trend that’s come to be known as the “Great Resignation.”
Kirk was the top assistant state’s attorney under Foxx’s predecessor, Anita Alvarez, whom Foxx bested in the 2016 primary. Prior to that, he worked as a prosecutor in the office under Dick Devine. “I can no longer work for this Administration,” Murphy wrote in a sign-off to colleagues. “I have zero confidence in their leadership.”
His adieu also references low staffing that he says is at dangerous levels, as “two person courtrooms and one person courtrooms are the norm. This has been going on for some time and is getting worse by the day. This is not a recent phenomenon. This Administration can claim that this attrition is due to the Covid Era. We all know that is not true.”But Kirk said there should be three ASAs per courtroom to handle hundreds of cases, and when it dips below that number, that’s a problem.
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