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One of the biggest cries during the police reform marches of the summer of 2020 was about the inability of the public — even some police departments — to accurately track cops with bad records.
“The NAACP is not anti-police,” said Broward NAACP President Marsha Ellison at a press conference in the Public Defender’s Office at the Broward County Courthouse. “We are anti-racist police.
The public defender system is not the only form of indigent defense program offered in the United States. Besides the public defender system, there are two other main alternatives: assigned-counsel system and contract-service system. [3] Assigned-counsel is where the court appoints a private lawyer to defend someone who cannot afford to pay. [3]
After meeting with Measures for Justice to talk about criminal justice data, [7] in 2018 Florida lawmakers passed laws requiring "its jails, prosecutors, public defenders, courts and prisons to coordinate their data collection, enabling lawmakers and the public to track how someone moves through the entire criminal justice system, from arrest ...
The Florida Keys Republican is against a proposal to merge judicial circuits statewide that, if approved by the Legislature, would mean Monroe and Miami-Dade counties would consolidate judges ...
Matthew Aaron Shirk (born July 9, 1973) is an American lawyer and served as the public defender for Florida's Fourth Judicial Circuit.He was elected to the position, which covers Clay, Duval, and Nassau Counties, in 2008 and lost re-election in 2016.
Florida logs reports of serious incidents that occur inside its juvenile prisons, but the state does not maintain a database that allows for the analysis of trends across the system. HuffPost obtained the documents through Florida’s public records law and compiled incident reports logged between 2008 and 2012.
Rashid Bryant, a 22-month-old, died in 2020 from ‘acute and chronic’ abuse. The Florida Department of Children and Families took a year to release records related to his death.