From the North Carolina Office of Indigent Defense Services:
We’re excited to introduce a new streamlined communications platform for IDS communications that will save you time and eliminate clutter from your inbox.
Beginning August 17, 2020, we are asking all public defense attorneys to sign up for communications from the new Public Defense Portal at https://Portal.NCIDS.org.
- Be notified about urgent issues, including those resulting from the
COVID-19 pandemic, that may affect you. - Receive personalized information relevant to your legal practice.
- Keep updated on issues relevant to your public defense community.
- Learn about the CLE programs you need near you.
- Help IDS advocate on your behalf more effectively.
- Save your time. Once all attorneys have signed up in the Portal, IDS will stop bombarding you with duplicate emails from multiple sources.
For the Portal to be a success, we ask that every North Carolina public defense attorney (private or state employed) be signed into the Portal by October 1, 2020. If you sign up in the Portal by October 1, you will be entered into a drawing for a chance to win a free CLE program of your choice. While the Portal will become the primary means of communication from IDS, it will not replace the listservs that IDS maintains for the public defense community. Listservs provide public defense attorneys the means to communicate with each other on important issues and IDS will continue to support this important function. |
Sign up in the new Public Defense Portal at https://Portal.NCIDS.org.
With gratitude and appreciation,
Mary S. Pollard
Executive Director
Office of Indigent Defense Services