Kootenai County Prosecutor Bill Douglas announced he will not seek reelection this November. Here are some questions for discussion:
- What is your understanding of the job of the Kootenai County Prosecutor (that one specific position, not the entire office)? What do you believe the prosecutor’s duties and responsibilities are?
- What are your expectations for the person elected to that position?
- What do you consider to be the most and least important personal and professional qualifications for the Kootenai County Prosecutor?
- Identify a candidate who has the personal and professional qualifications you believe to be essential for the prosecutor’s position? Explain why that candidate is qualified.
- Over the next four years, what do you believe the most significant challenges for the Kootenai County Prosecutor and the Office will be?
- If you could give the new prosecutor one piece of advice, what would it be?
These are great questions and I believe that the position of prosecuter deserves serious attention/thought because it is ultimately the most powerful position within our local government. Only the prosecuter can hold our local government in check while they also prosecute ‘private’ crimes.
(2) First of all, when an agency violates the law like the OML or even a violation of disclosure of private record into the public sector, we do not generally, if ever go after that particular violation, locally, which one might say is a ‘crime against the public’, because it will cost us too much money/work? However, there is no problem upholding the law if a citizen does not carry liablility insurance on their car and they are caught without it. It is a given because it is a state law to have it. Hardly anyone files complaints regarding this type of infraction, because that law works. It has been upheld by our judicial system.
I want to see the prosecuter uphold state law rather it be a $150.00 fine or not, when our ‘officials’ intentionally ignore/abuse the law at a LOCAL level. I want the judicial system to work for me/us – because I/we expect/deserve that.
Comment by Stebbijo — February 27, 2008 @ 9:13 pm