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The Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy on the Web
DPA Home Page: At http://dpa.state.ky.us/ contains a history of defenders in Kentucky; DPA's mission and information about defender caseloads; the Public Advocacy Commission; the agency's 4 divisions: Trial, Post-Trial, Protection & Advocacy, Law Operations; Kentucky defender funding relative to national defender funding; maps of counties covered by full-time defenders and prosecutors; the agency's core values; and links to defender employment opportunities; the National Legal Aid and Defender Association's home page and other links. Thanks to Randy Wheeler for placing this information on our page!
Criminal Law Links: In July 1995 the Department of Public Advocacy established a presence on the World Wide Web by beginning Criminal Law Links. What started out as a simple listing of links to criminal law resources on the web soon blossomed. Now the site provides links to news, opinions, reference materials, medical information, search engines and other resources that are useful to the criminal law practitioner. The site also posts selected articles from The Advocate and other sources in its "Focus" section. Recently the department began a site devoted to Education and Development. This site includes links to CLE resources on the web and announcements of upcoming DPA education and other educational events related to criminal law. Criminal Law Links can be reached at http://dpa.state.ky.us/~rwheeler.
DPA Education: The DPA Education and Development site is located at http://dpa.state.ky.us/~rwheeler/train.htm, or can be reached through a link from the Criminal Law Links home page. It lists future defender education.
We hope that you find this service useful. If you have any suggestions or comments, please send them to DPA Webmaster, 100 Fair Oaks Lane, Frankfort, 40601.
DPA Employment Opportunities: Available defender jobs are posted at: http://dpa.state.ky.us/career.htm
The Advocate: The Advocate newsletter is now available
at http://dpa.state.ky.us/advocate starting
with the May 1998 issue.