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Angie Darcy currently serves as the Executive Officer of the Pretrial Services program with the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC). Angie first joined the AOC in 2016 and served in multiple leadership roles. She served in the Office of General Counsel as legal counsel, senior legal counsel, deputy general counsel and also served as the Government Affairs Liaison.
Before coming to AOC, Angie was a public defender with the Department of Public Advocacy and represented hundreds of indigent defendants in Pike County, Kentucky. She was a staunch advocate for her clients and was awarded the Clarence Darrow Prodigy Award by the Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in 2008.
As Pretrial Services’ Executive Officer, Angie oversees operations of the program which operates in all 120 of Kentucky’s counties and provides 24-hours a day, seven day a week service to the defendants, jails, and courts. Kentucky Pretrial Services also oversees Kentucky’s Monitored Conditional Release (MCR), Deferred Prosecution (DP), and Diversion programs and the Administrative Release Program.
In partnership with Kentucky’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disabilities and Kentucky Adult Education, Kentucky Pretrial Services is overseeing the implementation of new legislation establishing a new Behavioral Health Conditional Dismissal Program. This pilot program is designed to provide an eligible person, who has a behavioral health disorder and charged with a qualifying offense, an alternative to receive treatment and recovery support services addressing the behavioral health disorder instead of incarceration, resulting in dismissal of the charges upon successful completion.
Angie earned a bachelor’s degree from Salem College in North Carolina and a juris doctor from the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law.
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