Clark County Council v. Donahue

SULLIVAN, Justice.

A dispute has arisen in Clark County over the purposes for which “probation users’ fees” collected from persons placed on probation can be spent and the authority for making those spending decisions. State law is clear that probation users’ fees may be spent only to supplement probation services and to supplement salaries for probation officers; they may not be used to replace other funding of probation services. The county fiscal body shares authority for spending decisions with the courts in the county that provides probation services.

Background

As we have previously…