WA: more hq moves for p.d.'s

From the Herald-Republic:

Public defenders' office moving to bigger space

The Yakima County department that provides attorneys for poor defendants plans to move to the former Halverson & Applegate law office space at North Fourth Street and Lincoln Avenue. Dan Fessler, who heads the office of Assigned Counsel, said he hopes to complete the move of his 19-member staff by July 1...

"We have a few people double-bunked in here," he said. "We are out of space with no room for expansion..."

For years they had been crammed in a narrow little shoebox across from the library, and across the parking lot from my former employer. If the new building is the one I'm thinking of, it will be a few steps farther to the courthouse, but a big step up for morale. It's nice to see p.d.'s getting private law firm - grade accomodations now and then.