June 25, 2019
Nora Christenson: Hurrell-Harring Providers Meet ILS Caseload Standards
Director Leahy's Transmittal Memo
October 30, 2017
Hurrell-Harring Settlement Implementation: 2017 Update Report [pdf]
Onondaga County
Ontario County
Schuyler County
Suffolk County
Washington County
October 30, 2021
ILS Releases Evaluating the Effectiveness of Caseload Standards in the Hurrell-Harring Settlement Counties
February 10, 2020
ILS Releases Implementing Caseload Relief and Quality Initiatives in Assigned Counsel Programs
Caseload Relief
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Caseload Standards in the Hurrell-Harring Settlement Counties, October 2021
Implementing Caseload Relief and Quality Initiatives in Assigned Counsel Programs, February 10, 2020
The Settlement, approved in March 2015, requires New York State and the five defendant counties to improve the delivery of public defense services in four key areas:
In 2007, just one year after the release of The Final Report of Chief Judge Kaye’s Commission on the Future of Indigent Defense Services (Kaye Commission Report), the New York Civil Liberties Union sued New York State alleging that the State had systematically and structurally denied meaningful and effective representation to defendants entitled to publicly funded representation in violation of their Sixth Amendment right to counsel.