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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Coordination of indigent legal services
3:17:19
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75 sec
Deanna Logan explains MOCJ's role in coordinating the city's provision of criminal indigent legal services, ensuring equal access to legal defense for all New Yorkers.
- Coordinates provision of criminal indigent legal services, including conflict counsel cases
- Works collaboratively with the state to ensure quality representation for those who cannot afford private counsel
- Created a dedicated legal team focused on contracts and fiscal matters
- Successfully registered all contracts on time for FY 2025 and on track for FY 2026
Deanna Logan
3:17:19
Mach J works hard to preserve a cornerstone of justice for tens of thousands of New Yorkers, equal access to legal defense.
3:17:30
We coordinate the city's provision of criminal indigent legal services, including conflict counsel cases that are handled by the assigned counsel plan.
3:17:40
Working collaboratively with the state, we ensure that the city affords quality representation for all, especially those who cannot afford private counsel.
3:17:53
To better manage this work, we created a dedicated legal team focused on contracts and fiscal matters which helped our finance staff register all, not one, but all contracts on time for fiscal twenty five for our indigent legal work and we're on track to repeat that success in FY twenty six.
3:18:17
With dozens of mock j programs and hundreds of mock j partners, it would take me hours and I know that you're in lunch break so you don't want me to take hours to detail all of the impact work that the impact our work is having across New York.