It has been more than a year since altered district court electronic records surfaced showing District Attorney Angela Albers had worked over 10,000 criminal cases, including 1,000 as a defense attorney.

Some cases were from before Albers came to Wood County. 

As of last week, those records had not been corrected, despite claims a year ago that the matter was being addressed.

Wood County IT Director John Bell said last week he was surprised the changes had not been made.

He acknowledged that although the IT department was not at fault, he would find out what had happened.

Bell has contacted Tyler Technologies, the county’s judicial software vendor, and he said they are making those changes.

County Judge Kevin White was sworn in on Jan. 1, 2023, after the matter came to light.

“I was not in office then, but it is being taken care of at this time,” White noted.

In 2018 Jim Wheeler resigned as district attorney. On March 19, 2019, Albers was sworn in as district attorney after being appointed by the governor.

She had been serving as an assistant DA.

A request was made March 21, 2019, by Albers’ office to change the attorney for the state on all future criminal dockets in the courts and justice software to reflect that appointment.

At the time, Albers claimed her office took the appropriate action.

“I know this office did the right thing. I sent an email to the district clerk’s office to make the change from the day I took office and not before,” Albers said. “It was going forward, not retroactive.”

Albers won reelection to the unexpired term in 2020 and a full 4-year term in 2022.

The state attorney general’s office was reported to be investigating the discrepancies in March 2022.

No one at that time was able to identify how the change was made or who made it.