Judicial Papers of Alexander Francis Ball

Testimony to the Pima County Board of Supervisors

County-facing prepared testimony opposing elimination of a justice precinct and arguing for a fuller data-driven review of court structure, staffing, and judicial workload.

June 30, 2021 · Alexander Francis Ball · Prepared testimony

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Judicial Papers of Alexander Francis Ball

Series IV. Public Role, Writing, and Programmatic Communication within the Judicial Papers of Alexander Francis Ball.

Collection guide: Judicial Papers of Alexander Francis Ball

Current release

Judicial public tranche 2026-04-22

Judicial public tranche 2026-04-22, released April 22, 2026.

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Record description

This outward-facing policy text argues against reducing judicial capacity during a period of backlog, demographic transition, and administrative uncertainty. It frames precinct-line revision as a question of data quality, court operations, and judicial independence, and it marks the public-advocacy side of the Judicial Papers with unusual clarity. The reviewed file also preserves drafting artifacts, so Ball Archives describes it conservatively as prepared testimony rather than as a fully normalized public speech text.

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Provenance

Descriptive record based on an undated local DOCX file in the private Pima County Justice Court source root. Ball Archives currently dates the record from the file-level timestamp (June 30, 2021) because the reviewed text does not itself carry a fuller explicit date line. The local file system remains the source of record.

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"Testimony to the Pima County Board of Supervisors," June 30, 2021, Judicial Papers of Alexander Francis Ball, Ball Archives, https://ballarchives.org/items/testimony-pima-county-board-supervisors-2021.

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