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Council OKs two-year contract for indigent defense counsel
Summary
Ordinance 002-26 authorizing a two-year contract to provide legal counsel for indigent defendants in Alliance Municipal Court was adopted unanimously after council suspended rules for three readings.
Council adopted Ordinance 002-26, authorizing the Director of Public Safety and Service to enter a two-year contract providing legal counsel to indigent persons charged with loss-of-liberty offenses in the Alliance Municipal Court. The ordinance was passed as an emergency after the council suspended rules for three readings and approved it by unanimous roll call.
During the reading council noted a clerical pronoun correction in the ordinance's fifth Whereas clause regarding the Law Director. No substantive changes were recorded on the floor; council proceeded to adopt the ordinance to ensure continuity of counsel under the Municipal Court's indigent-defense obligations.
