The Office of Public Defender for Alapaha Judicial Circuit is located in Adel, Georgia and serves indigent criminal defendants in Atkinson, Berrien, Clinch, Cook and Lanier counties. The Public Defender's Office for the Alapaha Judicial Circuit is part of the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, an independent agency within the executive branch of Georgia's state government. The mission of the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council is to ensure, independently of political considerations or private interests, that each client whose cause has been entrusted to a circuit public defender receives zealous, adequate, effective, timely, and ethical legal representation, consistent with the guarantees of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, the Constitution of the United States and the mandates of the Georgia Indigent Defense Act of 2003. They also aim to provide all such legal services cost-efficiently and to conduct that representation so that the criminal justice system operates effectively to achieve justice. Kindly contact the Office of Public Defender for Alapaha Judicial Circuit for further information.