On a roasting fire: Public Defender Services Commission calls special meeting for December 19th. One item on agenda.

Public defenders wishing for some relief for Christmas had their hopes raised with agenda of the Public Defender Commission’s December 19th special meeting. The commission consider only personnel matters. That ominous item will likely be discussed by a commission increasingly dismayed by Chief Public Defender TaShun Bowden-Lewis’s leadership.

The one-item agenda means there will be no time reserved for public participation, which has become an acrimonious curtain raiser for monthly meetings.

Published December 18, 2023.

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