Things have gotten pretty cramped these days in the district attorney’s office.
“I’m completely out of space here,” said District Attorney Marc Bennett. “I could not hire another attorney unless I doubled up and put two attorneys in one office. We literally converted a bathroom into an evidence locker.”
Help’s on the way.
To clear space for prosecutors in the congested courthouse, the Sedgwick County Commission this week approved borrowing $6.82 million to expand and renovate space in the county jail.
The project will allow the sheriff’s office to transfer about 40 of its employees to the jail, which is next door.
And that in turn will free more than 9,300 square feet that can be remodeled for use by the district attorney’s staff.
“The biggest problem that we’ve got is space in this facility and this is going to help open up some of that space,” said Commission Chairman David Dennis. “We appreciate how rapidly this is coming together because I know a lot of people are needing this space.”
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