Public Comments for: HB125 - Special justices and independent evaluator fees; emergency custody and voluntary civil admissions.
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Last Name: Creekmore Organization: Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court (contract) Locality: Henrico

The compensation for special justices, court-appointed attorneys, and independent examiners in civil courts had received up until last year had not been raised by statute forover 15 years. Last year the court-appointed lawyers compensation for representation of indigent clients was raised substantially. The Deeds Commission noted recently that Virginia was 49th or 50th in the nation. It is time to raise the statute frozen fees for hard-working special justices and independent examiners as well, particularly if MD and PhDs are to be encouraged to undertake the kind of high risk complex neuropsychiatric clinical assessments that increasingly are at evidence in the EDs, psychiatric units, and Crisis Now Centers that are increasingly coming into play under the Governor's Right Help Right Now. You cannot expect the quality of forensic and neuropsychiatric expertise that will be require under an EDCOT styled evaluation program under CCBHC community if you do not pay these professional competitive rates, particularly psychologists and other licensed professionals if they are to undertake to do these kinds of "high risk" assessments and to participate actively in specialty court proceedings. There are already major workforce shortages among these licensed professionals which will only get worse if they are not offered competitive rates.

Last Name: Creekmore Organization: Independent Examiners Contracted under the Virginia Supreme Courts Locality: Henrico

The lawyers, special justices, and independent examiners providing special judicial services are hard-working profession who have had their fees fixed by statute for many years. As an independent examiner contracted through the OES, the statutorily "frozen" fee I receive ($75 per evaluation) has not been increased in the 15 years + that I have provided this service as a licensed professional. I urge the Committee to vote in the affirmative for Watts HB125.

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