PIERRE — A bill allowing the Unified Judicial System to study the funding of court-appointed attorneys and indigent legal representation by counties will move to the Senate after passage by the Senate Judiciary Committee. State Court Administrator Greg Sattizahn says counties carry the burden of funding for court-appointed attorneys…
Very little funding is currently provided to counties for the service…
Senator Michael Diedrich looks forward to what the task force could find for solutions to funding for indigent legal representation…
An emergency clause was amended into House Bill 1064 so that, if approved, the task force could be installed immediately to look at the funding of court-appointed attorneys.
