Attorney General Liz Murrill looks back at her first year in office and looks ahead to year two.
Murrill says one of her biggest accomplishments is addressing crime in New Orleans through the creation of Troop NOLA within the State Police.
“(We) went from two prosecutors to 22 prosecutors in six months,” says Murrill. “They’ve been doing a really, really good job in New Orleans.”
Murrill says Troop NOLA is a force multiplier in one of the most important cities in the state.
“To be able to do things that individual offices couldn’t each do or couldn’t sustain because they just don’t have the budget or the need,” says Murrill, “but collectively we all have a need.”
As for her priorities in year two, Murrill said she would like to focus on the fentanyl crisis.
“I want to appoint an individual in my office to be a fentanyl opioid specialist to help coordinate operations and ideas and centralize some of the information about how to spend some of the opioid settlement money,” Murrill says.
Murrill says it’s an idea that the office of Arizona’s Democratic attorney general is implementing.
“There is no single individual in our state that kind of centralizes information, programming, best practices and ideas on what would be a good way to spend that money and make an impact across our state in the long-term,” says Murrill.
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