“Travis County is in the home stretch in its years long effort to establish a public defender office for low-income adult defendants. The Texas Indigent Defense Commission on Thursday OK'd a four-year grant to establish the office in the county – the largest jurisdiction in the country without such an office. All told, the state and county money will send more than $40 million toward indigent defense over the 48-month grant period.“
NPR Austin
August 29, 2019