WA: good news from Ephrata

... for a change. From the P-I:

Public defender office improving in Grant County

A new report has found that the beleaguered public defender system in Grant County has taken "significant steps" toward improving.

Seattle attorney Jeffery Robinson, in his first court-ordered quarterly report, concluded there was no need for the court to enforce terms of last year's settlement between the county and the American Civil Liberties Union.

"I think they're taking this seriously, and they're trying to do the things necessary to fix the problems," Robinson said Wednesday in a telephone interview with The Wenatchee World...