public defenders

Considering Harris County’s Public Defender System and Youth

Rather than re-post this in full, I’ll just point out my recent post Anticipating Effect of Public Defender System on Representation of Indigent Youth in Harris County on the Children and the Law Blog, part of my work for the Center for Children, Law & Policy. This follows up on my previous post Call for […]


Call for Harris County Public Defender’s Office

There seems to be a growing movement in Harris County to creating a local public defender’s office. As many Houstonians would be surprised to discover, despite, well… voting for the people they do, Harris County has no public defender office. While Houston has a federal public defender office, there is no state or county counterpart […]