Welcome to the Texas Indigent Defense Commission (TIDC) - Home Page!
The Texas Indigent Defense Commission provides financial and technical support to counties to develop and maintain quality, cost-effective indigent defense systems that meet the needs of local communities and the requirements of the Constitution and state law. In addition, we require local planning for indigent defense and reporting of expenditures and provide an array of resources for counties to improve these services. For more information see Who We Are and What We Do. Please contact any staff member for more information about this program.
What's New
- TIDC Press Release - Montgomery County Begins Operation Of Discretionary Grant Program
- TIDC FY11 Annual and Expenditure Report
- 2011 Fair Defense Law
- Conference brochure: Judicial Update on Indigent Appointments, January 13, 2012, Texas Tech University School of Law
- December 2011 e-Newsletter
- Securing Reasonable Caseloads: Ethics and Law in Public Defense, Norman Lefstein, American Bar Association Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants (November 2011)
- FY2013 Discretionary Grant Request for Applications (RFA)
- Video downloads of presentations from Symposium on Indigent Defense, October 27, 2011
- Bethke presentation on Magistration to TMCEC's Regional Judges' Seminar in Tyler on October 25, 2011
- Attorney General Opinion re Appointment of Counsel in Criminal Cases for Non-Indigent Defendants (9/7/11)
- Lubbock wins Texas Association of Counties Best Practice Award for Special Needs Defender Program - see video here
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Updated: 25-Jan-2012
