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Task Force on Indigent Defense Votes to Expand Regional Capital PD

By Steve Hall

Texas' Task Force for Indigent Defense had a full agenda for its Wednesday meeting.Besty Blaney files, "Texas panel approves funding for defenders office," for AP.  It's via the Houston Chronicle.Members of the Task Force for Indigent Defense agreed Wednesday, voting in Austin to approve a modest expansion of the program while putting off larger increases because of state budget concerns, said Lubbock County Courts Coordinator David Slayton.The panel approved a one-year, $2.2 million grant that will expand the program by 55 counties. The office in Lubbock opened 2 1/2 years ago with 85 counties in West Texas. The additional counties are in far West Texas and south Texas.Slayton said the task force held off on a more ambitious $27...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 10, 2010 (boomark / email).