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Archer County Attorney David Levy has accepted a teaching position with the Texas State University legal studies graduate school program and will continue to work in his position in absentia. The county attorney said, at the request of County Judge Randy Jackson, he will continue to take care of county obligations. 'He (Levy) had concerns with an appeal that an elected official is pursuing, and two criminal Jury trials in County Court scheduled for late 2022, or early in 2023, that he was involved in from the day after the arrests,” Jackson said. “I asked him to consider staying on as our County Attorney and working remotely, much like we had been doing during the Covid restrictions, and he agreed to do so, instead of retiring from his elected position.” Jackson added he will still correspond with Levy daily and that the county’s closed case ratio for grant eligibility in 2022 is at 92% which is over the required 90%. “In my opinion, with the election cycle, David Levy’s offer to stay on as the County Attorney was/is a very generous offer that will help Archer County financially and with the continuity of legal issues that arise,” Jackson said. “His decision to stay on were for the welfare and benefit of Archer County citizens, his longtime clients, friends, and other elected officials of the county and cities of Archer County.” The county attorney said his office will operate very similarly to how it did during the covid-19 pandemic with a lot done being remotely.