California forms commission to overhaul underfunded county public defender systems
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Anat Rubin
Summary
California has formed a new Independent Commission on Public Defense, composed of legislators, public defenders, academics, and advocates, to address the state's status as one of only two states that does not fund basic public defense services. The commission aims to push California to begin providing resources and enforcing minimum standards for county public defender systems, which have been chronically underfunded and overburdened.
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· 2 pulledA new commission made up of legislators, public defenders, academics and advocates seeks to push California — one of just two states that don't pay for basic public defense — to begin providing resources and enforcing minimum standards for county public defender systems.
The California Independent Commission on Public Defense includes three assemblymembers and two senators — among them Jesse Arreguín and Nick Schultz, chairs of the Senate and Assembly Public Safety Committees — as well as chief public defenders from several counties, retired judges, the directors of criminal justice nonprofits
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