UT: caseload outpaces pop. growth in Provo

From the Daily Herald:

Workload increasing at public defender's office

As Utah County has grown, so has the number of people who rely on its public defenders. But despite recent staff increases, the public defender's office says it may need more attorneys soon...

(T)he number of felony cases filed by the county attorney's office, and hence the number of cases assigned to public defenders, saw an annual increase of 9.7 percent over the past eight years. The county's population has grown by an average of 4.3 percent per year during the same period...

Fun fact I didn't know:

Utah and Salt Lake counties are the only counties in the state that fund a full-time public defender's office...