• Public defenders and public defense professionals from around the country protest racial injustice embedded in the criminal system and affirm that Black Lives Matter. Photo used with permission. 

  • NAPD members hard at work. Photo (c) Lorinda Youngcourt

  • Ohio State Public Defender Tim Young presents at an annual NAPD Executive Leadership Institute. Photo (c) Lorinda Youngcourt

  • Public defenders and public defense professionals from around the country protest racial injustice embedded in the criminal system and affirm that Black Lives Matter. Photo used with permission. 

  • Hamilton County (OH) public defenders provide expungement services to their clients. 

  • San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi leads a protest in response to police killings in the Bay area. Photo (c) Jeff Adachi 

  • Louisiana public defender Mark Plaisance argues for the retroactive application of Miller before the US Supreme Court. Image used with permission (c) Art Lien/www.courtartist.com

  • The struggle to end excessive workloads was the galvanizing issue for NAPD's formation; Orleans Public Defenders take their struggle to prime time. Photo used with permission.

As public defenders from across the country took to the streets and raised their collective voices in support of Black lives and in opposition to police violence, oppression, inequity and state-sponsored terror.  At the same time, as a national organization striving to provide support for and be the voice of public defense in this country, yesterday was also a day of reckoning and self-reflection.  Read our commitment to transformational change HERE

UPCOMING EVENTS


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Recent Contributors

  • Marty Feinman, Director of Juvenile Justice Trainings, Legal Aid Society (NY)
  • Aaron Goldstein, Attorney Supervisor, Cook County Public Defender, Cook County, IL
  • Jennifer Kinsley, Professor, Northern Kentucky University School of Law
  • Richard Pittman, Director of Juvenile Defender Services, Louisiana Public Defender Board
  • Prya Murad, Assistant Public Defender, 15th Circuit Public Defender (Palm Beach, FL)
  • Melinda Drewer and Flint Stebbins, ABC Law Group, Everett, WA 
  • Chant'a Parker, Innocence Project
  • Lisa Feinman, Director of Special Litigation & Law Reform, Legal Aid Society, New York, NY
  • Jill Paperno, Second Asst. Public Defender, Monroe County Public Defender's Office, NY

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  • Jefff Adachi, Chief Public Defender, San Francisco Public Defender's Office, CA
  • Emily Coward, Project Attorney, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Sarah Buchanan, Director of Social Services, Knox County Community Law Office (TN)
     
  • Patrick Brayer, Coordinator of Law Students and Interns, Missouri State Public Defender System
  • Janene McCabe, Director of Technical Litigation, Colorado State Public Defender
  • Andre Vitale, Special Assistant Public Defender, Monroe County Public Defender's Office (NY)
  • Terence Davidson, Paralegal, Legal Aid Society (New York, NY)
  • Michael Barrett, State Public Defender, Missouri State Public Defender System
  • Alex Bunin, Chief Public Defender, Harris County Public Defender's Office, TX

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