Chief Defender RIAC Referral Survey

1. Your Office

On behalf of which office are you answering?

Start typing your county or office name, then choose from the list.

If your office is not listed, enter its name here

Name of Chief Defender / Office Head (This information is auto-filled from the NYSDA Chief Defender List - please correct it if it is out of date)

Your name and email address, if you are not the Chief Defender

2. Your Intake Process

When a defendant needs an attorney, who assesses eligibility and where is that information kept? (We are trying to understand what happens in the majority of your cases. If there are variations depending on specific courts — for example, cases originating in Town and Village Courts with an appearance ticket as opposed to CAP court — please separately explain those in the box below.)

Everything is completed by an attorney (or their paralegal).An attorney (or paralegal/clerk acting on their behalf) asks the eligibility questions, our office makes the eligibility determination and all of the defendant’s answers are maintained within an attorney’s file An attorney asks, but the answers are reviewed by third parties.An attorney (or paralegal/clerk acting on their behalf) asks the eligibility questions, but the answers are reviewed by third parties, for example by the presiding Judge or court staff Eligibility is assessed by third parties.Defendants are provided an eligibility form by the Court and answers are reviewed by the Court to approve eligibility Other

Additional information (optional)

3. Immigration Screening

Do you currently ask all defendants whom your office may represent immigration screening question(s)?

Yes — we ask “Were you born in the United States?” Yes — we ask “Where were you born?” Yes — we ask some other question(s) (please provide details below) No — we do not

Additional information (optional)

4. RIAC Referrals

If you are aware that your client was not born in the United States, do you automatically send anything to RIAC? Please check any and all options which apply. (We are trying to understand what happens in the majority of your cases. If there are variations depending on specific courts — for example, cases originating in Town and Village Courts with an appearance ticket as opposed to CAP court — please separately explain those in the box below.)

Assigned attorney name Client name Case identifying information (e.g. docket number) Charges & supporting depositions Further additional information (please specify)

Additional information (optional)

5. Administrative Contact Person / People

If RIAC has a specific administrative question about a case or referral, who is the best person / people for us to contact initially? (For example, “does your office have a case for this defendant that RIAC has become aware of?”, or “did you receive a copy of the fingerprint RAP sheet in this case?”)

6. Other Info

Please provide any other information which may be relevant for us to know about your office or your county (for example, delays in learning about assignments at arraignment, courts do not provide fingerprint RAP sheets, etc.).

7. How Can RIAC Improve?

Are there any ways RIAC could improve our support of your office / your defenders?

RIAC - Chief Defender Referral Survey

1. Your Office

2. Your Intake Process

3. Immigration Screening

4. RIAC Referrals

5. Administrative Contact Person / People

6. Other Info

7. How Can RIAC Improve?

Thank you