TITLE 17 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Section 12. Legal Defense For Indigents, 17-12-1 through 17-12-128.

ARTICLE 1 GEORGIA PUBLIC DEFENDER COUNCIL

17-12-10. Annual reporting.

1. Upon request, the council shall prepare annually a report of its activities in order to provide the General Assembly, the Governor, and the Supreme Court of Georgia with an accurate description and accounting of the preceding year's expenditures and revenue, including moneys received from cities and county governing authorities.
2. Upon request, the council shall provide to the General Assembly, the Governor, and the Supreme Court of Georgia a detailed analysis of all grants and funds, whether public or private, applied for or granted, together with how and in what manner the same are to be utilized and expended.
3. Upon request, the director shall prepare annually a report in order to provide the General Assembly, the Supreme Court, and the Governor with information on the council's assessment of the delivery of indigent defense services, including, but not limited to, the costs involved in operating each program and each governing authority's indigent person verification system, methodology used, costs expended, and savings realized.

(Code 1981, §17-12-10, enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 191, § 1; Ga. L. 2008, p. 846, § 22/HB 1245; Ga. L. 2011, p. 91, § 7/HB 238; Ga. L. 2015, p. 519, § 7-8/HB 328.)

The 2011 amendment, effective July 1, 2011, near the beginning of subsection (c), substituted "director" for "council" and inserted ", the Supreme Court,".

The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, substituted "Upon request, the council" for "The council" in subsections (a) and (b); substituted "Upon request, the director" for "The director" at the beginning of subsection (c); and deleted the former last sentence of subsection (a), which read: "Such report shall include a three-year cost projection and anticipated revenues for all programs defined in the General Appropriations Act."