What we’re monitoring: Child Welfare • Gun Safety
Tight rental market keeps domestic violence survivors in shelters longer
Advocates said they could meet only a fraction of the demand for emergency housing, with only 14 percent of eligible clients receiving shelter statewide.
July ‘radio hour’ pulls back the curtain on Maine’s child welfare system
The show offers a behind-the-scenes look at recent Maine Monitor reporting.
A 13-year-old immigrant was arrested in Maine. It took 2 weeks to get her home.
The girl, who was in a vehicle stopped near Farmington before Memorial Day and was released after intervention from politicians, is an example of how children have become ensnared in President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration agenda.
With federal funding in doubt, Maine’s domestic violence resource centers freeze hiring
Resource centers around the state have frozen hiring and are operating understaffed in anticipation of funding shortfalls.
A Maine judge was set to start releasing people without lawyers from jail this summer. Now that’s off.
The Maine Supreme Court halted habeas corpus hearings so it can consider an appeal from the state.
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