(Radio Iowa) – The governor’s budget director says he’s been told by a top court official that the computer programming error that has improperly distributed over 53 million dollars in court fees and fines has NOT been fixed.
Kraig Paulsen, director of the Iowa Department of Management, says he’ll meet before the end of the week with the Iowa Supreme Court’s chief justice to discuss the problem. The Judicial Branch has not issued a statement on the situation. Spending levels for several programs that were changed five years ago were not programmed correctly into the court’s computer system.
Paulsen says he believes the age of the computer system for Iowa courts is a factor in this, but he’ll find out more when he meets with the chief justice.
