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The Public Defender of Georgia is elected for a term of six years, for no more than one consecutive term, by a majority of at least 3/5 of the total number of the members of the Parliament of Georgia. [2] The office was established in accordance with the 1996 Organic Law on the Public Defender of Georgia. [1]
From 2004-2006, Rapping was the training director for the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council. [9] From 2006-2007, he served as training chief for the New Orleans Office of the Public Defender. [9]
The public defender system is not the only form of indigent defense program offered in the United States. Besides the public defender system, there are two other main alternatives: assigned-counsel system and contract-service system. [3] Assigned-counsel is where the court appoints a private lawyer to defend someone who cannot afford to pay. [3]
After a spell as deputy head at the State Audit Office of Georgia from 2016 to 2017, she was nominated by the ruling Georgian Dream party as Public Defender of Georgia following consultations with civil society organizations and approved by the Parliament of Georgia for a five-year term on 30 November 2017. [3]
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The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) is the source of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) used by state and local governments in the United States. [1] As with most of the entities involved in creating GAAP in the United States, it is a private, non-governmental organization.
By 1907 the commission began to regulate docks and wharves, as well as telephone, gas, and electric-power companies, and in 1931 its jurisdiction expanded to cover the trucking industry. In 1922 the Georgia legislature changed the agency's name to the Georgia Public Service Commission to reflect its expanded regulatory role. [1]