First link is the press release from the Administrative Office of the United States Courts and the second link are the letters to Congress and the actual legislative proposals.
I support all 17 proposals as submitted.
Proposal 1: $25 million in supplemental appropriations for COVID-19 response, such as cleaning, remote telework equipment, etc.
Proposal 2: $9.4 million in supplemental appropriations for Federal Defender services, primarily to hire additional Federal Defenders to help clear the criminal case backlog.
Proposal 3: $2.2 million in supplemental appropriations for remote security and personal protective equipment.
Proposal 4: Allows for the early termination of supervised release in the interests of justice.
Proposal 5: Reduces unnecessary detention of low risk pretrial defendants.
Proposal 6: For the remainder of the COVID-19 emergency, allows compassionate release motions to go directly to District Court without the normal 30 day requirement to exhaust administrative remedies.
Proposal 7: Focuses scarce electronic monitoring on high risk defendants.
Proposal 8: Allows pretrial services to eliminate certain mandatory reports that would not be useful to the District Court in making bail determinations.
Proposal 9: Eliminates certain duplicate reports to victims of crime.
Proposal 10: Clarifies obligations for pre-release custody.
Proposal 11: Increase speed of consideration of compassionate release motions.
Proposal 12: Converts 8 of the 10 existing temporary judgeships to permanent judgeships.
1 – Kansas
1 – Missouri Eastern
1 – Arizona
1 – California Central
1 – Florida Southern
1 – New Mexico
1 – North Carolina Western
1 – Texas Eastern
Temporary judgeships in Alabama Northern and Hawaii are unaffected.
Proposal 13: Would add a total of 7 judgeships in the following extremely backlogged districts.
1 – Indiana Southern
1 – Delaware
1 – New Jersey
1 – Texas Western
1 – Arizona
1 – Florida Southern
1 – California Eastern
Proposal 14: Allows certain retired judges in the United States Territories to serve immediately as senior judges.
Proposal 15: Eliminates unfair leave requirements for Senior Court Executives as opposed to their legislative and executive branch counterparts.
Proposal 16: Allows bankruptcy courts to toll certain deadlines due to COVID-19 during the continuation of the current emergency.
Proposal 17: Authorized a 60 day extension of the deadline for certain reports due from the Judiciary under the Dodd-Frank Act.
