Maine’s watchdog agency spent years investigating four child deaths. Here are the takeaways.
OPEGA presented its final report to the legislature last week. Lawmakers wanted to know: What could the child welfare office have done differently?
‘The hornet’s nest’: How seven wealthy summer residents halted workforce housing on Mount Desert Island
A debate over a six-unit project in Mount Desert has pitted millionaire summer residents against both the town and a pair of billionaire brothers.
Public defender’s offices are opening across Maine. The next step: staffing them.
In Bangor, at the epicenter of the state’s indigent defense crisis, the district defender has only been able to fill one of five positions.
The Maine Supreme Court asked large law firms for help. They didn’t.
“I think that the idea that fat cat lawyer law firms can send their trial lawyers into court to defend these criminal cases is not realistic. They’d be unqualified to do it.”
Across Maine, judges are deciding when the lack of an attorney becomes a constitutional violation
The Monitor has identified 10 cases in Androscoggin and Aroostook counties where judges have found Sixth Amendment violations, and there are likely more.
Six months in, Maine’s first public defenders’ office talks strategy
“I think we are fighting a cultural battle here.”
“Maine has lost sight of parents’ and children’s right to be together”: The case of Barni A.
A state supreme court case found a mother’s parental rights were unfairly terminated, providing a rare glimpse inside the opaque child welfare system.