David L. Smith, Chief Public Defender

The Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit Public Defender Office serves all of Polk County and Haralson County, and is a part of the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council and is jointly supported by the State of Georgia and Polk and Haralson Counties.

Our mission 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; to provide all such legal services in a cost efficient manner; and to conduct that representation in such a way that the criminal justice system operates effectively to achieve justice

Contact Information

Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit Public Defender Office
Polk County Office
Courthouse # 2, Room 102
Cedartown, GA 30125

Phone: (770) 748-3480
Fax: (770 748-3493

Our Polk Staff

Chief Public Defender

    Mr. David L. Smith

Assistant Public Defender
     Ms. Cynthia Lane Salley

Juvenile Public Defender
     Ms. Shikera Turner