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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The 4th Circuit State Attorney's Office and the Public Defender's Office will be closed Wednesday. The Clerk of Court's Office will be closed Wednesday. The Property Appraiser’s Office and Tax ...

He didn’t because of the swift actions taken by attorneys at the Loudoun County Public Defender’s Office. This case is merely one of many like it handled by Public Defender Lorie O’Donnell’s team on a ...