Parents! Family members! we are inviting you to join us for a virtual Lawyer Up session with Natasha Khalfani from Maryland’s Office of the Public Defender!

Do you know your rights when navigating the family policing system? Do you know your rights if CPS comes to YOUR door?

This session will feature a 'Know Your Rights' training followed by discussion with Fathers Fighting For Fathers, Child First and Civil Rights Corps about alternatives to the family policing system and an introduction to OPD's 'Better Together Program'.

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/