Dallas County Public Defender's Office uses startup tech to fight pre-trial detention

As the one of the state’s largest public defender’s office in a city that hosts Texas’ second largest jail, the Dallas County Public Defender’s Office sees more than 30,000 cases per year. Many of those are for low-level, non-violent offenses, according to Lynn Richardson, its chief public defender, that keep many people locked up while they await their trials. And amid a global pandemic and a national conversation about police and jail reform sparked by the killings of unarmed Black men,…