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State auditors update joint judiciary committee on public-defender audit and outstanding recommendations
Summary
Colorado's Office of the State Auditor updated the Joint Judiciary Committee on Jan. 8 about a 2024 SMART Act performance audit of the Office of the State Public Defender and a statewide summary of unimplemented audit recommendations.
The Colorado Office of the State Auditor told the Joint Judiciary Committee on Jan. 8 that a 2024 performance audit of the Office of the State Public Defender (OSPD) found high attorney workloads, inconsistent eligibility documentation, and incomplete training records, and that agencies statewide have implemented the large majority of prior audit recommendations.
Deputy State Auditor Michelle Collin and managers from the audit office told the panel the OSPD audit compared the office's caseloads for fiscal year 2023 against national and Colorado studies and found the majority of attorneys had caseloads exceeding recommended standards. "Depending on which of the standards you look at, 46 to 99% of the attorneys had caseloads that exceeded…
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