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Jefferson County, state public defender discuss facility transition as statute deadlines approach
Summary
The Seventh District’s new district public defender, Jordan Crane, told Jefferson County commissioners the state’s amended statute requires either vacating or working out a county agreement by set deadlines; the county and state discussed leasing, utilities and furniture disposition.
Jordan Crane, the newly appointed district public defender for Idaho’s Seventh Judicial District, told Jefferson County commissioners on Friday that a recent change to state law requires the State Public Defender’s Office and counties to decide how to transition public defender facilities.
Crane said the statute “tells the state public defender we’ve got to either be out by 2029 or have some worked out with the county,” and that an amendment “says we’ve got to have a bind start 2027 that would involve the county and kind of decide how do we transition out, do we transition out.”
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