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At a Capitol news conference, Legal Aid Attorneys Jessica Heiser and Jessica Webster announced release of a report by the Minnesota Disability Law Center on seclusion rooms. Says Heiser, “This is the first time the public can see, through our investigative authority, the dramatic differences between seclusion rooms and calming rooms.”
Attorneys Jessica Heiser and Jessica Webster delved further into details outlined in the Minnesota Disability Law Center’s just-released report on
MEDIA ADVISORY: (Minneapolis, Minn.) – Where the public isn’t allowed to go, Legal Aid’s Minnesota Disability Law Center is. Using their monitoring and investigative authority, MDLC attorneys visited seclusion rooms in Minnesota schools. This week, they are releasing their findings in a comprehensive report, complete with gallery of photos.
The Minnesota Senate Human Services Committee heard heart-wrenching testimony from providers and clients with disabilities.
Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid’s Pheng Thao of our Youth Law Project urges families to assign a standby guardian if they fear separation from their children. The simple solution is a Delegation of Parental Authority (DOPA) form. Learn more in this article.
STATEMENT (Minneapolis, Minn.) – As the end to this devastating week nears, Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid remains in a place, unimagined — helping victims on the frontlines of a federal siege. Our legal teams live and work largely in Minneapolis, but we also live and work in St. Cloud, Willmar, Duluth and Mankato, and no one’s life is untouched.
STATEMENT: (Minneapolis, Minn.) — Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid extends profound gratitude to the Advocates for Human Rights and attorneys at Berger Montague. In these crucial hours, their litigation work led to the Temporary Restraining Order issued Wednesday, Jan. 28 by U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim. This has put a critical stop to the illegal seizure and detainment of our refugee clients.
Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid lawyer Pheng Thao says parents are signing DOPAs to allow their children to stay in the U.S., where their futures are brighter, rather than hoping another adult can fly the children out of the country for reunification.
Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid stands in solidarity with the Jan. 23, “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth and Freedom,” community-wide day of action. We share the day’s purpose, illuminating constitutional violations by ICE and demanding the end of ICE enforcement actions across Minnesota.
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