Media ContactLisa Ramirez, Communications Director, lramirez@mylegalaid.org
Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid Deputy Director Abigail Cerra spoke with WCCO Radio about the push to retain surveillance footage beyond the 7-14 days it’s currently available in Minneapolis.
Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid issued a statement to the Star Tribune in response to the federal announcement that the Surge in Minneapolis would soon end.
STATEMENT (Minneapolis, Minn.) — No one knows the terror, harm and impact of Operation Metro Surge better than our clients. The true measure of it ending will come from them, and from our legal teams who fight every day for justice on their behalf.
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.
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