Relative to indigent defense.

Summary

This concurrent resolution declares that public defenders are essential to due process and that chronic underfunding harms the justice system. It calls on the state to develop statewide approaches that use data, improve staffing levels, and create funding parity between defense and prosecution. The measure affects public defender offices, indigent defendants, and the counties that fund them.

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