Baltimore Action Legal Team and Out For Justice present, Lawyer Up! Lawyer Up! is a guide to navigating systems that community members may encounter when dealing with the Justice System.

Lawyer Up! is a monthly workshop by the community, for the community. This session focuses on parole and probation and was held via Zoom on 4/13/22.

For this session, we are joined by Antoin Quarels, Executive Director of H.O.P.E., Walter Nolley, Executive Deputy Director at Division of Parole and Probation, and Kaeshawn Stweart, Victims Assistance Specialist at the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services Domestic Violence Unit.

H.O.P.E. and CPP will be hosting their annual back to school event at the intersection of the Sandtown-Winchester, Upton, and Madison Park neighborhoods and have asked BALT to provide expungement resources.

If your case qualifies for an expungement, we can help jumpstart the process.

Hope to see you there!

BALT, with the support of Maryland Legal Aid, is offering a free expungement training. The training covers Maryland criminal record expungement law, expungement filing and Court process, and expungement mistakes and how to avoid them. The training is open to attorneys and legal workers.

Register here!

The Board of Estimates will host the Fiscal Year 2022 Preliminary Budget Presentation and Annual Taxpayers’ Night on Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these events will be hosted online.

Beginning at 6:00pm, Mayor Brandon M. Scott, City Council President Nick Mosby, Comptroller Bill Henry, City Solicitor Jim Shea, and Acting Director of Public Works Matthew W. Garbark will hear a brief presentation on the Fiscal 2022 Preliminary Budget Plan from Henry Raymond, the Director of the Department of Finance. Public testimony will begin after the presentation and continue until all participants signed up to testify have been heard. The Fiscal 2022 Preliminary Budget Plan was introduced to the Board of Estimates on April 7, 2021.

Residents can join this event by:

• Joining the virtual meeting at bit.ly/FY22BOETN, password Taxpayers. You will be required to download Webex, which may take a few minutes.

• Dialing-in to 408-418-9388. Use access code 129 643 5978.

• Streaming CharmTV’s cable channel, Channel 25/1085HD, and online here.

Residents can sign up to give testimony at the event in the form below. Testimony is limited to two minutes per speaker and only available to those joining through the virtual meeting. The Board of Estimates will all accept public testimony through April 30, 2021, via the form below, email (Taxpayernight@baltimorecity.gov) or voicemail, 410-396-8873.

Source: https://bbmr.baltimorecity.gov/fiscal-2022-virtual-taxpayers-night-0

The vast majority of seniors in prison, many who have been in prison for decades, are routinely denied parole and compassionate release by the state. They are often denied release even though they pose no threat to the public.

Join Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign in showing support and solidarity with these folks. We’ll provide all the materials and a quick “how to” for writing to people in prison. We will also write to governors and parole boards who hold the power to intervene in individual cases, and learn how mass incarceration affects prisoners in their '60s, '70s, and '80s.

For more information: Visit the event’s facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1200187903481218/

The Baltimore Police Department is inviting feedback on their new policy on sexual assault, until September 15. It is urgent that survivor's voices are heard. FORCE is hosting this forum to provide space for us as victim-survivors to give feedback and hear one another's thoughts and concerns. Representatives from the SART team and Department of Justice will be there to provide support and advocacy. 

You can also review the draft policy and submit comments as an individual here: https://www.baltimorepolice.org/708-draft-rape-and-sexual-assault. 

For more information, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/427863064403578/?notif_t=plan_user_invited&notif_id=1535542397219813 

The Independent Monitor is hosting its second quarterly community report forum at the Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, 600 South Conkling Street, Baltimore MD 21224.  

Come to hear and discuss:

• The draft report of Recommendations released June 30th by the Community Oversight Task Force (COTF)
• What do you think the qualifications and characteristics of the next Baltimore City Commissioner should be?
• The latest Consent Decree updates
• Community testimonies, concerns, and general feedback regarding policing in Baltimore

Union Baptist Church

1219 Druid Hill Avenue 21217

On July 21st, the finalists for the Consent Decree Monitor will be selected. These finalists will appear before the community on August 16th and answer interview questions that are submitted by the public.

BALT is hosting a happy hour on 8/2 from 5:00pm-7:00pm at The Room to offer a time and place for residents to submit interview questions for finalists to answer. We will provide summaries of the finalists' applications as well as computers and tablets for submitting questions.

Join BALT partner, Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle for their April Malcolm X Talk Co-Sponsored by The Harbor Bank of Maryland.

Many people like to talk about economic, community development and wealth creation. This discussion talks about what it actually means and the strategies and actions that actually make it happen.

We will look at the fundamentals of macroeconomics and provide a practical view as it relates to the African-American community.

This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Click HERE to RSVP