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
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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.
Preferred citation
"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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