by Meryl Carver-Allmond, BIDS Training Director

A group of BIDS attorneys was recently recognized by the Kansas Bar Association for their pro bono work at Wichita self-help legal clinics.

by Meryl Carver-Allmond, BIDS Training Director

About 180 public defenders, staff, assigned counsel, and others gathered in Topeka on June 5th and 6th for Kansas’s first-ever statewide public defense conference.

by Meryl Carver-Allmond, BIDS Training Director

Sedgwick County Deputy Public Defender Bach Hang was recently honored with the Wichita Bar Association’s “Liberty Bell” Award.

by Meryl Carver-Allmond, BIDS Training Director

For the second year in a row, chiefs and deputies joined the BIDS Administrative Office in Lawrence in early May for our annual Leadership Conference.

by Caroline Zuschek, Deputy Capital Appellate Defender

According to dusty old paper records and digitized fiscal reports of the 2000s, the Salina Regional Public Defender Office received funding in fiscal year 1972, and opened officially in 1973. This means it has been serving Salina for 50 years.

Pamela Sullivan, current deputy to Chief Justin Bravi, started working at the Salina office in 1996. She'd been hired by Mark Dinkel, who began working at the office in the mid-1980s, as the office's fourth attorney (following Ralph DeZago, Julie McKenna, and George Robertson). The longest-tenured employee of the office, Pamela tells me she's seen significant changes in the office since she started in Salina over 25 years ago.