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Department sponsoring the collection: 

Form number(s): The instrument is 

CPDO–1. The applicable component 

within the Department of Justice is the 

Bureau of Justice Statistics (Judicial 

Statistics Unit), in the Office of Justice 

Programs. 

4. Affected public who will be asked 

or required to respond, as well as a brief 

abstract: Respondents will be leaders of 

public defender offices. The Census of 

Public Defender Offices (CPDO, OMB 

Number 1121–0095) is the only national 

data collection identifying and 

surveying all public defender offices in 

the U.S. and Territories since the first 

iteration of CPDO in 2007 (originally 

titled Survey of Public Defender Offices 

2007). In 2013, the Bureau of Justice 

Statistics conducted the National 

Survey of Indigent Defense Systems 

(OMB Number 1121–0095), expanding 

its scope to include not only public 

defender offices but also assigned 

counsel and contract attorneys. For 

purposes of this project, public defender 

offices are eligible for inclusion if they 

are publicly funded, have a physical 

address, at least one W–2 earning 

attorney, and provide direct public 

defense representation for adults and/or 

juveniles who are accused of a crime or 

delinquency or accused in a trial court 

of violating conditions of a sentence. 

After locating all public defender 

offices in the U.S. within the defined 

scope, the 2023 CPDO will gather 

important metrics on public defender 

office operations from office leaders. 

Developed in consultation with public 

defense leaders, the survey includes 

sections addressing general office 

operations including expenditures and 

funding streams, staffing, caseloads, 

eligibility standards, and office 

resources. 

The 2023 instrument is a combination 

of questions from the 2007 iteration and 

new or updated questions reflecting 

emerging issues in the field of public 

defense. Retaining historical questions 

will allow for trend analysis while the 

newer questions will provide 

informative data useful for practitioners, 

researchers and policymakers. Some 

examples of information provided by 

the CPDO include: 

• Caseloads and case types 

• Staff sizes and roles 

• Staff attrition 

• Staff salary ranges 

• Demographics of chief public 

defender and staff attorneys 

• Initial public defender appointment 

and contact practices 

• Case management system capacity 

BJS will use the information gathered 

in CPDO in published reports and 

statistics. The reports will be made 

available to the U.S. Congress, Executive 

Office of the President, practitioners, 

researchers, students, the media, others 

interested in criminal justice statistics, 

and the general public via the BJS 

website. 

5. An estimate of the total number of 

respondents and the amount of time 

estimated for an average respondent to 

respond: BJS will send the survey to 

approximately 2,000 public defender 

offices (in 50 states, the District of 

Columbia and five U.S. Territories). The 

obligation to respond is voluntary. The 

expected burden placed on each 

respondent is about 1 hour. 

6. An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection: The total respondent burden 

is about 1,890 hours. BJS estimates 

approximately 6% (120) of offices 

receiving the survey will screen out of 

the survey due to ineligibility. The 

burden for out-of-scope entities will be 

less than 5 minutes. 

Number of 

public 

defender 

offices 

Time per 

survey 

Total time 

(in minutes) Total burden hours 

Out of scope public defender offices .............. 120 5 600 10 hours (600 mins/60 mins). 

In scope public defender offices ..................... 1,880 60 112,800 1,880 hours (112,800 mins/60 mins). 

Total ......................................................... 2,000 ........................ ........................ 1,890 hours. 

7. An estimate of the total annual cost 

burden associated with the collection, if 

applicable: No costs other than the cost 

of the hour burden exist for this data 

collection. 

If additional information is required, 

contact: Darwin Arceo, Department 

Clearance Officer, Policy and Planning 

Staff, Justice Management Division, 

United States Department of Justice, 

Two Constitution Square, 145 N Street 

NE, 3E.206, Washington, DC 20530. 

Dated: September 5, 2024. 

Darwin Arceo, 

Department Clearance Officer for PRA, Policy 

and Planning Staff, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer, U.S. Department of 

Justice. 

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every month through Fiscal Year 2025, 

at 2:00 p.m. Changes in date and time 

will be posted at www.nlrb.gov. 

PLACE: Meetings will be held via 

videoconferencing technology. If Board 

meetings resume in person, the Board 

will meet in the Board Agenda Room, 

No. 5065, 1015 Half St., SE, Washington 

DC. Any in-person meetings will be 

noted at www.nlrb.gov. 

STATUS: Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Pursuant to 

§ 102.139(a) of the Board’s Rules and 

Regulations, the Board or a panel 

thereof will consider ‘‘the issuance of a 

subpoena, the Board’s participation in a 

civil action or proceeding or an 

arbitration, or the initiation, conduct, or 

disposition . . . of particular 

representation or unfair labor practice 

proceedings under section 8, 9, or 10 of 

the [National Labor Relations] Act, or 

any court proceedings collateral or 

ancillary thereto.’’ See also 5 U.S.C. 

552b(c)(10). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Roxanne L. Rothschild, Executive 

Secretary, 1015 Half Street SE, 

Washington, DC 20570. Telephone: 

(202) 273–1940. 

Dated: September 6, 2024. 

Roxanne L. Rothschild, 

Executive Secretary, National Labor Relations 

Board. 

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