Hancock County Budget, Efficiency and Revenue Committee and Hancock County Council members Tammy Settergren and Scott Wooldridge listen in during a recent hearing. GREENFIELD — Hancock County ...

Jan. 21—LOCKPORT — The Niagara County Public Defender's Office is undergoing a leadership shakeup in keeping with recommendations from a private law firm that determined the office's two top ...

The program offers limited loan forgiveness for prosecutors, public defenders and indigent legal services lawyers. Last year, the state allocated $2.4 million for the program. Coupled with the extra ...

Dec. 22, 2024 The state must immediately provide counties with more funding to hire public defenders, particularly those with immigration expertise. San Diego and San Francisco have excellent ...

A new proposal to help solve Washington’s public defender crisis is attracting bipartisan support in the Legislature but would carry a hefty price tag. Sponsored in the Senate by a diverse group ...

Lisa McLean has made new hires as she takes over the role of representing the county’s indigent criminal defendants. Flanked by her sons Jackson McLean, 23, left, and Jake McLean, 25 ...

ANNAPOLIS -- The Maryland Office of the Public Defender (OPD) is demanding lawmakers to put an end to automatically charging minors as adults. As the Maryland General Assembly's 2025 legislative ...

A former federal public defender and prosecutor, he has called them “political prisoners” and offered on at least one occasion to represent them for free. Patel will almost certainly be asked ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office this week filed an amicus brief supporting the City of San Francisco’s fight against a lawsuit by the San Francisco Police Officers ...

The Pinal County Public Defender's Office has reason to celebrate after two of its own, Kevin Heade and Paul Lovelis, received significant accolades at the Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice's ...