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Appointed by the Governor from a list of at least three attorney nominees submitted by the New York State Bar Association (Executive Law § 833(1)(d)).
FY 2022-23 Expenditures: $0
FY 2023-24 Expenditures: $0
Anticipated FY 2024-25 Expenditures: $0
The purpose of the Office of Indigent Legal Services ("Office") is “to monitor, study and make efforts to improve the quality of services provided pursuant to article eighteen-B of the county law.” Executive Law Article 30, Section 832(1). The Office does not provide legal assistance or lawyer referrals to individuals.
In furtherance of its statutory mission to “monitor, study and make efforts to improve the quality” of public defense in New York, ILS established the Parent Representation Advisory Council to support community-building among providers and parents from around the state and to provide a direct forum for consultation, empowerment, and collaboration with ILS to influence local and statewide policy and practice relevant to the quality of publicly funded parent legal representation pursuant to the Family Court Act. The PRAC had its first meeting on August 30, 2018.
ILS-195
Submission due by April 1, 2024
Each provider of mandated representation must file an annual report with the Office of Indigent Legal Services (ILS) pursuant to New York County Law §722-f. Providers will fulfill this requirement through submission of a form known as the ILS-195. There are three parts to this form.
In 2007, just one year after the release of The Final Report of Chief Judge Kaye’s Commission on the Future of Indigent Defense Services (Kaye Commission Report), the New York Civil Liberties Union sued New York State alleging that the State had systematically and structurally denied meaningful and effective representation to defendants entitled to publicly funded representation in violation of their Sixth Amendment right to counsel.
The Settlement, approved in March 2015, requires New York State and the five defendant counties to improve the delivery of public defense services in four key areas:
Caseload Relief
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Caseload Standards in the Hurrell-Harring Settlement Counties, October 2021
Implementing Caseload Relief and Quality Initiatives in Assigned Counsel Programs, February 10, 2020
October 30, 2021
ILS Releases Evaluating the Effectiveness of Caseload Standards in the Hurrell-Harring Settlement Counties
February 10, 2020
ILS Releases Implementing Caseload Relief and Quality Initiatives in Assigned Counsel Programs
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