The Department Fiscal Officer manages the budgets, expenditures, revenues and some personnel issues. She also maintains statistics for grant compliance and all other grant-related administrative duties. Barbara is cross-trained to fill in as a legal assistant managing criminal complaints and defendant files. She also has worked as the District Attorney’s liaison to the Plumas County Drug Courts that provide mandated treatment to criminal offenders involved in substance abuse.

The District Attorney Administrator supervises the support staff of the Office, which includes the Paralegal and the Legal Assistant.  This position also deals directly with outside agencies regarding fugitive extradition matters, including Governor's Warrants and Interstate Agreements on Detainers. 

 The Assistant Public Administrator (APA) investigates and administrates the estates of persons who die either intestate or with a valid Will, but without family or with family that is not willing or is unable to act as administrator.  It is the APA's responsibility to protect the decedent's property from waste, loss or theft; make burial/cremation arrangements; conduct investigations to discover all assets; endure that the estate is administered according to the decedent's wishes; pay the decedent's bills and taxes; and locate any persons entitled to inherit from the estate and ensure that these individuals receive their inheritance.

 The Assistant Public Administrator is also the Indigent Burial Officer and determines whether families of limited means qualify to have their family cremated at County expense.

 Kelly Wilkinson, our Legal Assistant, maintains the misdemeanor case load. She prepares a wide variety of legal documents, such as motions, briefs, court orders, notices, subpoenas, complaints, declarations for arrest warrants and abstracts of judgments.
   Kelly also inputs suspect, victim, and reporting/arresting agencies information into the computer. She provides discovery for defense attorneys, performs basic office functions; answering phones, making copies, faxing, filing, etc.