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Demonte Ward-Blake was injured when a Prince George’s County police officer slammed him to the ground in a 2019 encounter, his family said in a federal civil rights lawsuit.
Author: Katie Mettler
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Courtwatchers, Fiona Apple fight against ‘assembly line of injustice’
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A new National Courtwatch Network launches this week as part of the next frontier of criminal justice accountability.
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Md. police records still costly, hard to get despite reforms, lawsuits say
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Laws passed in the 2021 were intended to increase transparency to police department records but implementation has been inconsistent, groups suing for more open access say.
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Prince George’s pretrial system needs improvement, federal judge says
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A federal judge made the comments as he considered requests to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the court’s bond review process and the county’s pretrial release program
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Lawsuit takes on pit bull ban in Prince George’s County
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The suit, filed in July, claims the decades-old county ordinance is discriminatory, unconstitutional and not based in science.
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People in jail sued over covid safety. The oversight didn’t last.
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Twin lawsuits in D.C. area jails show just how fleeting the direct impact of civil litigation can be for incarcerated people.
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Baltimore’s Natasha Dartigue named Maryland’s next public defender
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Natasha Dartigue has been a public defender for more than 25 years and is currently the acting district public defender for the city of Baltimore.