By Eliza Shapiro By the time Rebecca Bailin reached her mid-30s, she had grown tired of watching friend after friend get priced out of New York City once ... McNeil, a public defender who lives ...

The contentious issue has delayed an already late state budget, with Gov. Kathy Hochul insisting that it be resolved before ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Gov. Tina Kotek is addressing the public defender shortage crisis by announcing a new interim executive director of the Oregon Public Defense Commission. She has chosen ...

Tina Kotek announced Thursday; the culmination of the state's worsening problem of indigent criminal defendants going unrepresented due to a lack of available public defenders. Jessica Kampfe ...

The head of Oregon’s public defender system was fired Thursday morning, after a years-long struggle to fix the shortage of defense attorneys across the state. Gov. Tina Kotek fired Jessica ...

Also last year, the Chicago Board of Elections objected to a union petition filed by city elections workers ... for pay parity with Cook County public defenders, the Teamsters have said.

The alleged child molester was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement before being formally charged and ...

but the commission has the power to remove the public defender or reappoint the public defender to a new term. Rekowski said limiting the judge’s power over public defenders to just their first ...

In addition to the pay cuts, the state’s poorly executed rollout of new technology last September left public defenders unable to communicate with clients in jail for a month, further hampering our ...