Governor Mike DeWine recently held a press conference announcing the Executive Budget. This is the first step in the budget process, which will culminate in the signing of a finished two-year ...

Two Pinal County public defenders, Kevin Heade and Paul Lovelis, received prestigious awards for their work in indigent ...

Oregon spends four times the national average on indigent defense yet thousands of cases have not been prosecuted because the ...

The County Commissioners Association of Ohio (CCAO) applauds Governor DeWine and his administration for strong support of county government in the executive biennial budget proposal. In his ...

Author: Josh Keefe, Rose Lundy, Emily Bader, and Stephanie McFeeters for The Maine Monitor. Josh Keefe is a government ...

The most common criminal charge filed against a defendant in Maine courts may not even be for a crime. If someone out on bail ...

"I find that alarming," a state lawmaker says about 85% of a state legal defense fund going to assist people arrested under ...

The Fulton County Commissioners held their two meeting for this past week on Tuesday, January 28th and Thursday, January 30th. Both meetings began at 9:00 a.m. with the Pledge of Allegiance and a ...

The state Supreme Court’s rulemaking committee has adopted changes to how court transcriptions are prepared. A proposal last year mandated audio recordings in courtrooms next year, potentially paving ...

Vann the executive director of Justice 360, issued the following statement on behalf of Marion Bowman and his legal team, ...

Gov. Janet Mills made history in 2022 when she signed a bill authorizing the state to hire its first set of public defenders. Mills said in a speech Tuesday that she has helped quadruple the state's ...