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High Plains Regional Public Defender's Office
500 Broadway, Suite 180, Plainview, TX
Phone - 806-598-6886 Fax - 806-598-6840
A Pioneering Public Defender's Office
Thanks to the tireless efforts of numerous stakeholders, thirteen counties in the Southwest Texas Panhandle banded together to apply for a rural regional public defense grant from the Texas Indigent Defense Commission (TIDC) to assist with the operating costs of a multi-county public defender's office.
This cooperative venture was motivated by the realization that we could no longer rely upon a dwindling pool of appointed attorneys from Amarillo and Lubbock to fulfill the Constitutional duties owed to our less fortunate residents.
Our application was approved June 29, 2023, and the High Plains Regional Public Defender's Office was established shortly thereafter as the first full-time public defender's office dedicated to serving the 116,050 people who call the Llano Estacado home.
Even if [the accused] can’t afford an attorney, the court must appoint one. . . so that justice is served. And when justice is served, our communities also are served -- and so is our society as a whole.
Justice Hugo Black
