(a) The agency is authorized to require such reports as it deems necessary from any public defender corporation or other entity or person receiving funding under this article regarding activities carried out pursuant to this article.
(b) The agency is authorized to prescribe the keeping of records with respect to the activities of public defender corporations and other grantees, contractors, persons or entities receiving financial assistance under this article and shall have access to such records at all reasonable times for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions upon which financial assistance was provided.
(c) Copies of all reports pertinent to the evaluation, inspection, or monitoring of any public defender corporation, other grantee, contractor, person or entity receiving financial assistance under this article shall be maintained by the agency for a period of at least five years subsequent to such evaluation, inspection, or monitoring. Such reports shall be available for public inspection during regular business hours, and copies shall be furnished, upon request, to interested parties upon payment of such reasonable fees as the agency may establish.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers
Article 21. Public Defender Services
§29-21-1. Legislative Findings; Purpose
§29-21-3. Establishment of Public Defender Services
§29-21-3b. Indigent Defense Commission
§29-21-4. Purpose and Duties of Public Defender Services
§29-21-6. Powers, Duties, and Limitations
§29-21-7. Criminal Law Research Center Established; Functions
§29-21-8. Public Defender Corporations; Establishment Thereof
§29-21-13a. Compensation and Expenses for Panel Attorneys
§29-21-14. Limitation on Use of Funds; Exceptions
§29-21-15. Public Defender Corporations -- Board of Directors
§29-21-17. Private Practice of Law by Public Defenders
§29-21-18. Records and Reports
§29-21-20. Appointed Counsel Immune From Liability
§29-21-21. Forgiveness of Loans; Reversion of Public Defender Corporation Assets