Our new governor, Edward Miner “Ned” Lamont Jr., inherits a challenging financial environment. Years of governmental mismanagement, failure to make legally mandated pension contributions, stagnant economic growth and tax revenues have all contributed to this miasma. While there is no quick fix for this problem, one partial solution could be to re-examine how our state government operates to determine whether we can run it more efficiently and at less cost. That analysis may well start with our judicial system.

Few observers of our court system would assert that it is a model of efficiency. In many places, there are excessive personnel to perform court functions. There are also unnecessary physical locations for a state of our size. Many courts are underutilized during the course of the day. These factors combine to create a system that costs more than it should and is more than we can afford.

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