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Council rejects amendment that would have exempted public defender from municipal residency requirement
Summary
After debate, the City-County Council voted to reject an amendment that would have exempted the Marion County Public Defender's Office from a local residency requirement; the broader proposal (No. 236) was not advanced by the council.
The Indianapolis City-County Council voted against an amendment to council proposal 236 that would have created an exception to the municipal residency requirement for the Marion County Public Defender’s Office.
Councilor Hart, a sponsor of the proposal, moved an amendment to remove language that would have broadly eliminated the residency requirement and instead to create a targeted exception so the public defender could hire staff from outside Marion County…
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