Media ContactLisa Ramirez, Communications Manager, lramirez@mylegalaid.org
More than 200 emails were sent to the Duluth City Council as they considered penalties for various activities. Among those emails was a letter from Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid.
Legal Aid is disappointed the Supreme Court has decided the Constitution allows governments to make it a criminal violation to be homeless.
Read Legal Aid’s statement, in support of the county attorney’s updated U/T visa policy. It encourages noncitizen victims of crime to step forward and outlines a pathway to legal status.
Following a 70-25 vote by eligible staff in favor of unionizing, MMLA issued a statement which reads in part, “We look forward to working together, all of us, leadership, union members and staff.”
Read Legal Aid’s statement, supporting the 2023 legislative ban on prone restraints in schools. “The risk in using them on children is too great to ignore.”
Legal Aid’s Minnesota Disability Law Center with Think Self issued guidance on the constitutional rights for those needing court interpretation services.
Measured, reasoned and supported with facts from published studies and reports, Legal Aid submitted a commentary by Maren Hulden supporting legislation limiting use of prone restraints on students.
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