District Attorney Robert Busbee, the four-county Ogeechee Judicial Circuit's elected lead prosecutor, speaks to the Bulloch County Board of Commissioners March 17 about successes, long-term problems he believes he and his staff solved during his first year in office and continuing challenges. – photo by AL HACKLE/Staff District Attorney Robert Busbee, in his second year as elected chief prosecutor of the four-county Ogeechee Judicial Circuit, has again asked the Bulloch County Board of Commissioners for a sizeable increase in the county’s funding to the D.A.’s Office. This time, he presented a two-level request. The first-level request for additional funding “to maintain fiscal year 2026” staffing of his agency in fiscal year 2027, in other words to maintain the status quo, would require about $188,539 from Bulloch County. That would be about a 22% increase over Bulloch County’s $825,670 contribution this year to the D.A.’s Office state-county funding mix, possibly less if the county takes over the provision of “utilities” to his Statesboro office building as he has suggested. Busbee’s second-level request, for money to hire two more assistant district attorneys, one more inve
