Media ContactLisa Ramirez, Communications Manager, lramirez@mylegalaid.org
As the Minnesota law providing free school meals gains national attention and enters its second year on the books, this story recalls the history, the Legal Aid attorney and years of hard-fought work that made it happen.
Having seen Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid through historic highs and financial lows of eight presidential administrations, longest-serving Deputy Director of Legal Aid, Ann Cofell will close out her illustrious, 44-year career on her anniversary date of Aug. 9.
New policies and procedures outlined in a settlement agreement between the Minnesota Department of Corrections and the Minnesota Disability Law Center, on behalf of two Legal Aid clients, took effect July 1. To examine the impact, reporter Louis Krauss of the Star Tribune and photographer Elizabeth Flores visited with our client in the Stillwater prison. MDLC Attorney Sonja Peterson accompanied.
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.
In this staff profile piece, Attorney Steve Schmidt reflects on five memorable cases. Each focused on disability rights for clients of Legal Aid’s Minnesota Disability Law Center. All had far-reaching effects in achieving justice for countless others in areas of legislation, prisoner rights, compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and increasing access to time with personal care assistants.
Sonja Peterson, attorney with Legal Aid’s Minnesota Disability Law Center and client Chou Yang, whose first language is American Sign Language, talk to Minnesota Public Radio about MDLC’s recent settlement agreement with the Minnesota Department of Corrections.
Minnesota Lawyer’s Dan Heilman interviews Minnesota Disability Law Center Attorney, Sonja Peterson. Peterson represented client inmates in a lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Corrections.
Litigation Director Luke Grundman describes how criminalizing homelessness could have an even more devastating impact on a community already marginalized and vulnerable.
Legal Aid is disappointed the Supreme Court has decided the Constitution allows governments to make it a criminal violation to be homeless.
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