DA Mulroy’s Office Will Not Oppose Court Fee Waiver Requests - Articles

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Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Nov 2, 2023

Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy on Tuesday announced that his office will no longer oppose requests for cost waivers of court fines and fees by low-income residents. Mulroy says that the financial impact of this policy is negligible and that “fines and fees have a disproportionate impact in our criminal justice system on low-income people and on minority communities, further exacerbating the already existing racial and wealth inequalities we have in the criminal justice system and society more generally.” The Daily Memphian reports that between August 2022 and August 2023, the Shelby County General Sessions Criminal Court processed 2,354 cost waivers.