/tags/travis-county-public-defender-office AG真人百家乐 County Public Defender Office en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Tue, 23 Aug 2022 21:14:37 GMT /crime-justice/2022-08-23/travis-countys-program-to-provide-lawyers-at-its-downtown-jail-is-still-on-hold For years, the county has been trying to give defendants access to lawyers at their first hearings in jail. Staffing shortages and, now, privacy concerns may kill that effort. Tue, 23 Aug 2022 21:14:37 GMT /crime-justice/2022-08-23/travis-countys-program-to-provide-lawyers-at-its-downtown-jail-is-still-on-hold Andrew Weber /crime-justice/2022-04-26/travis-county-launched-a-program-to-provide-lawyers-at-the-county-jail-it-lasted-nine-days The pilot program was part of a study to examine the benefit of providing legal counsel to people immediately after their arrest. But staffing shortages in the sheriff's office have made the program unworkable. Tue, 26 Apr 2022 20:50:46 GMT /crime-justice/2022-04-26/travis-county-launched-a-program-to-provide-lawyers-at-the-county-jail-it-lasted-nine-days Andrew Weber /crime-justice/2020-02-04/travis-county-hires-law-professor-as-its-first-ever-public-defender AG真人百家乐 County has hired a University of Virginia law professor as the first person to lead its public defender office. Until last year, the county was the鈥� Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:44:31 GMT /crime-justice/2020-02-04/travis-county-hires-law-professor-as-its-first-ever-public-defender Andrew Weber /austin/2019-08-29/travis-countys-public-defender-office-is-officially-funded AG真人百家乐 County is in the home stretch in its yearslong effort to establish a public defender office for low-income adult defendants. The Texas Indigent鈥� Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:24:48 GMT /austin/2019-08-29/travis-countys-public-defender-office-is-officially-funded Andrew Weber /crime-justice/2019-07-30/travis-county-approves-its-plan-for-a-public-defender-office AG真人百家乐 County Commissioners voted 4-1 Tuesday to approve a revised plan to set up a grant-funded office to provide legal services to low-income鈥� Tue, 30 Jul 2019 21:34:33 GMT /crime-justice/2019-07-30/travis-county-approves-its-plan-for-a-public-defender-office Andrew Weber /crime-justice/2019-07-16/travis-countys-public-defender-office-will-have-a-seven-member-oversight-board AG真人百家乐 County is one step closer to finalizing its formation of a public defender office for low-income defendants charged with certain felonies and鈥� Tue, 16 Jul 2019 18:57:32 GMT /crime-justice/2019-07-16/travis-countys-public-defender-office-will-have-a-seven-member-oversight-board Andrew Weber /crime-justice/2019-05-09/travis-county-is-getting-a-public-defender-office AG真人百家乐 County 鈥� the largest jurisdiction in the United States without a public defender office 鈥� is getting a public defender office.AG真人百家乐 County鈥� Thu, 09 May 2019 21:10:31 GMT /crime-justice/2019-05-09/travis-county-is-getting-a-public-defender-office Andrew Weber /crime-justice/2019-05-07/after-months-of-obstacles-and-discord-travis-county-is-closer-to-creating-a-public-defender-office Update:AG真人百家乐 County is one step closer to creating a public defender office that would handle felony and misdemeanor cases of low-income defendants who鈥� Tue, 07 May 2019 11:01:00 GMT /crime-justice/2019-05-07/after-months-of-obstacles-and-discord-travis-county-is-closer-to-creating-a-public-defender-office Andrew Weber /crime-justice/2019-03-07/travis-countys-push-to-establish-a-public-defender-office-isnt-dead-for-now The effort to create a public defenders office in AG真人百家乐 County isn't dead after all.At its board meeting this morning, the Texas Indigent Defense鈥� Thu, 07 Mar 2019 19:38:16 GMT /crime-justice/2019-03-07/travis-countys-push-to-establish-a-public-defender-office-isnt-dead-for-now Andrew Weber