Travis County Public Defender Office

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.

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.

Travis 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…

Travis County is in the home stretch in its yearslong effort to establish a public defender office for low-income adult defendants. The Texas Indigent…

Travis 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…

Travis County is one step closer to finalizing its formation of a public defender office for low-income defendants charged with certain felonies and…

Travis County – the largest jurisdiction in the United States without a public defender office – is getting a public defender office.Travis County…

Update:Travis County is one step closer to creating a public defender office that would handle felony and misdemeanor cases of low-income defendants who…

The effort to create a public defenders office in Travis County isn't dead after all.At its board meeting this morning, the Texas Indigent Defense…