District Attorney Busbee requested 78% more county funding; budget offers 20%, but he says need is greater

District Attorney Robert Busbee of the Ogeechee Judicial Circuit, who took office in January, has requested increased funding from the circuit’s four counties, including initially a 78% increase in funding from the government of the largest county, Bulloch.

Bulloch County’s funding to its Animal Services agency, he notes, has been more than what it provides the D.A.’s Office, which prosecutes all of the county’s felony criminal cases. What the county administration and commissioners have offered so far, in the county’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2026, which opens July 1, is a 20% increase.

In a conversation with the Statesboro Herald on June 2, Busbee first sought to clarify his role in asking for a GBI investigation involving Bulloch County Public Works contracts, said to be involv