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BALT IS HIRING! Seeking applications for part-time Program Manager

Baltimore Action Legal Team (BALT) is accepting applications for a part-time Program Manager. BALT provides legal support to Baltimore communities as they exercise their civil liberties protesting against injustices rooted in structural racism and economic inequality. BALT exercises a community lawyering approach because we believe that communities' organizing efforts should drive legal advocacy. We support and advance mass defense employing a human rights and racial equity framework. The position provides technical and administrative support for BALT’s four key services 1) legal observation during community protests 2) jail support for arrestees 3) administering bail funds and 4) orchestrating ongoing community legal eduction.

BALT is seeking someone with a commitment to the local movement for Black lives, office experience, a working knowledge of the Baltimore criminal justice system, a connection to Baltimore, proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, budgets and accounting, social media, and experience maintaining a website. The position will be virtual and require 15-20 hours per week at $20/hour.

Interested applicants should send a resume and cover letter to info@baltimoreactionlegal.org by March 10, 2017. 

COMMUNITY, LAWYERS COME TOGETHER TO END SENTENCING DISPARITIES AND CREATE ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY JOBS IN BALTIMORE

On October 1, 2016, Baltimore Action Legal Team (BALT) will host the first ever Lightning BALT at Coppin State University. In collaboration with Out For Justice, Black Worker Center and Coppin State University’s Urban Studies Program, the daylong workshop provides a space for Baltimore residents, community activists, and legal workers to come together to develop a collective action plan focused on how to improve access to quality jobs and uproot sentencing disparities in Baltimore. The event is free and open to the public. 

BALT's Consent Decree Recommendations

BALT maintains that many areas of reform are needed, but we have directed comment and recommendations on the following critical areas: 1) unconstitutional stops, frisks, searches, and arrests; 2) the current and historical role of BPD in the greater system of structural racism; 3) infringement on individuals’ rights of free speech and assembly; 4) gender bias in policing; and 5) implementation of a community-led monitoring system over BPD and the Consent Decree. 

Mosby Announces There Will Be No Justice for Freddie Gray

Baltimore, MD - The Baltimore Action Legal Team (BALT) is devastated to learn that the Baltimore State’s Attorney has dropped all of the remaining charges against the police officers who killed Freddie Gray.                           

“Freddie was walking down the street, doing nothing wrong, when he had the misfortune of meeting the gaze of Lt. Brian Rice. It should offend and terrify every resident of Baltimore that in 2016 the act of locking eyes with a white police officer cost Freddie his life.” said Iman Freeman of BALT. “On top of that, today we learned that no one will be held accountable for his murder.”

In announcing the decision, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby said that Baltimore Police Department (BPD) displayed “consistent bias” at “every stage” of the investigation. Police Commissioner Kevin Davis continues to preside over a police department that is not doing enough to end police brutality. Today marks three months almost to the day since plain clothes police shot a 13-year-old child who was running away from police while holding a toy. BPD still has not released the results of its investigation into the shooting of a child or taken any action to punish the officer.