What we’re monitoring: Gun Safety
Attorneys talk challenges, next steps at indigent defense symposium
The free event in Augusta, co-hosted by The Maine Monitor and the Maine Indigent Defense Center, examined the origins of the crisis, models in other states and the rollout of Maine’s new public defender offices.
Federal audit finds Maine’s child welfare agency failed to follow its own policies
Inspectors made a series of recommendations, including additional training for caseworkers and supervisors and a system for documenting when notification letters are sent out.
‘A recusal issue inside a recusal issue’: An ethics inquiry puts the Maine Supreme Court in uncharted territory
The Committee on Judicial Conduct recommended that a justice be disciplined for failing to recuse from two foreclosure cases. Now it’s up to her colleagues to decide.
Which EMS agencies received stabilization funding?
More than $10 million has been distributed to 184 emergency transportation services.
In Maine’s probate courts, most adults placed in guardianships don’t have lawyers
A new report from Disability Rights Maine found that between 2019 and 2021, 75 percent of people placed in guardianships did not have an attorney.
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