Pima County Attorney

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Laura Conover Issues Executive Summary of New PCAO Cash Bail Policies

August 24, 2021

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PCAO Issues Statement on Charging Decision in March 4 Fatal Shooting

July 29, 2021

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Resources for People Affected by Multiple Casualty Incidents

The Crime Victim Compensation Fund: Find out if you’re eligible

PCAO is hoping to hire the most talented legal researchers, litigators & professional staff in southern Arizona

Use our Fraud Complaint Form to notify PCAO of potential fraud in southern Arizona

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Love of Reading Week with Pima County Attorney Laura Conover

Pima County Attorney Laura Conover reads “All Are Welcome” by Alexandra Penfold and Suzanne Kaufman.

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Our Victim Services Division, including Blake, sho

Our Victim Services Division, including Blake, showed up this morning at #ReidPark in support of maddarizona’s 2021 Walk Like MADD event! They’re passing out gun locks and Hug-A-Bears, so stop by and say hi!

#JusticeinPimaCounty: Week 37 #FromLaura The week

#JusticeinPimaCounty: Week 37
#FromLaura

The week began solemnly with all of us in the Office reflecting back 20 years ago. Many of our staff commemorate 9/11 by joining in the annual Tower Challenge at Tucson Convention Center, including our own Detective Shaun Pfund (pictured), who supports the event every year and even does it twice – once in honor of those who were lost, and once again in honor of all of us who remain to cope with the tragedy. Participation this year, as Det. Pfund reports, was at capacity to honor the nearly 3,000 civilians who died on 9/11, as well as the fallen members of the Law Enforcement Community, Fire Department, Emergency Services, and Military, who sacrificed their lives that day in service to others. Det. Pfund has personally raised $3,000 the last couple years from friends and co-workers in support of the 9/11 Tower Challenge Foundation. We salute his and his colleagues’ efforts.

Kudos are also due to our new stellar group of rookie attorneys and staff in the Misdemeanors Unit and in the Community Protection Bureau, who continue to shine. The first two years or so of a Deputy County Attorney’s career are a steep learning curve, especially in the bizarre environment of a pandemic. Justice Court is a fascinating, Wild West courthouse in which to learn the practice of law, and Rachael Fornof has poured her blood, sweat, and tears into making sure new attorneys and staff have what they need to handle the volume and fast pace of misdemeanors. I also want to thank Kevin Krejci, who after 28 years with our Office is approaching retirement and using half his time to shadow, mentor, and assist the misdemeanor attorneys in court. Having his wisdom, his experience, and his gravitas has been a welcome addition to the Unit.

At least today, it seems as if the weather is… cooling? And so, our weekend community activities are beginning to pick up. We appreciate every invitation to go out with our table and tent and promote 88-Crime, distribute gun locks, and offer our help with marijuana conviction expungements. And, sometimes, we even hand out Eegees. That always goes over well. See you out there!

#ToBeContinued,
Laura

Today, PCAO joins all of you and the rest of the c

Today, PCAO joins all of you and the rest of the country in commemorating 20 years since the events of September 11, 2001, took nearly 3,000 lives from their loved ones and from this Earth far too soon.

We take solace in how marking this day always brings our community together, building and solidifying bonds with neighbors and friends. While we all reflect today on such terrible tragedy, we also appreciate that our love and compassion for one another, and our pride in this community, are never more evident.

#NeverForget911

#JusticeinPimaCounty: Week 36 #FromLaura Labor Da

#JusticeinPimaCounty: Week 36
#FromLaura

Labor Day weekend was rough on our community, on law enforcement, and on our agency. And I don’t mean trying to cram five workdays into four.

It wouldn’t be forthright if I didn’t report to you that we suffered a homicide in #PimaCounty every single day this week, starting the Friday of the “holiday weekend.” In fact, as of this writing, on the cusp of the 20th commemoration of the events of 9/11, it’s exactly seven for the week. One of the worst of this week’s tragedies brought together TPD and PCSD to end a hostage situation, rescuing a bystander and her four children. It’s often hard to find even slivers of positivity in the wake of such terrible events, but I was proud to witness the collaboration between two of southern Arizona’s top law enforcement agencies.

The nationwide spike in homicides that coincided with the start of the pandemic will be studied by sociologists for decades to come. But for now, 9 SOAZ law enforcement agencies met together on Thursday morning to commit to solving this problem by expanding and formalizing their collaboration. It was good for me to see large and small, urban and rural law enforcement agencies agreeing to increase their training and to do so in cooperation, together.

For every homicide, the same Detective Sergeant (who is the supervising authority over all the detectives) and crew for each respective agency go out to the scene for hours. That Det. Sgt. will call our Chief Criminal Deputy, Dan South, at some point during the investigation, and one of our prosecutors is sent out to the scene, so often in the middle of the night. Dan then calls or emails me and briefs me next. Seven times this week alone.

Before we get that next homicide call, we need you to:

* Call PCAO at (520) 724-5617 and take a free gun lock from us.

* And, call (520) 622-6000 when dealing with a mental health and/or substance use crisis. Intervention and prevention have to be our community-wide goal.

#ToBeContinued,
Laura

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