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 ...

Victoria County Commissioners received an update on the status of the Crossroads Public Defender’s Office on Monday during their regular meeting. “We’re still in our recruiting and hiring ...

Dozens of lawsuits have been filed, some against Trump's efforts to end birthright citizenship and shrink the federal government.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Heather Cessna, executive director of the Kansas Board of Indigents’ Defense Services, describes a public defender system in crisis Jan. 14, 2025, at a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Most 16-year-olds have their eyes set on a driver’s license, but one Vermont Civil Air Patrol cadet wants to pilot hot air balloons. Leaders in New York are raising the alarm on potential cuts ...

He says he was mortified to learn that Spears is working in the public defenders’ office in West Plains. In 2007 Rowan Ford was strangled, raped, and her body dumped in a sinkhole in McDonald ...

The state’s leaders are overlooking our legal system’s single most important means of preventing mass deportations: public defenders. The vast majority of deportations start when a noncitizen ...

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 ...