The Maricopa County Public Defender’s Office provides tremendous value to the community by serving an important public safety function. We seek effective dispositions for addressing the underlying problems that contribute to our clients' criminal behavior, thus providing them with their best chance to become productive and law-abiding individuals. Its mission is to provide quality legal representation to indigent individuals assigned to us by the court, thus safeguarding the fundamental legal rights of each member of the community.

This coloring book was designed at the Phoenix Center for the Arts by a couple of our artists as a tool for students to learn about air pollution and to take preventative actions and become good environmental stewards. It is something fun for children to do while at the same time providing a good story that’s instructive about protecting human health and the environment.