Lauren Klosinski | February 2, 2021 | Children and the Law
The Support Center for Child Advocates, led by Executive Director Frank P. Cervone, was recently profiled by Visionaries, a documentary series. The Support Center’s mission is to advocate for victims of child abuse and neglect with the goal of securing safety,...
Lauren Klosinski | January 29, 2021 | American Indian Law
An article from Vice details how the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma could affect the lives and sentences of Native American’s convicted of crimes in the 3 million acres of eastern Oklahoma that is now recognized as “Indian Country.” The...
Lauren Klosinski | January 27, 2021 | Sentencing
The Marshall Project posted an article detailing what the future of criminal justice could look like under the Biden administration. The article outlines key elements of President Biden’s policies on policing reform, juvenile justice, the death penalty, bail reform,...
Lauren Klosinski | December 17, 2020 | Policing
A recent article from Law360 Access to Justice explores the First Circuit decision to recognize a carve-out exception to qualified immunity protections for government officials. The doctrine allows a woman to pursue claims that two detectives’ mishandling of her...
Lauren Klosinski | December 1, 2020 | Sentencing
On Nov. 9, Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law a bill calling on New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal to set up a program to collect and record data on defendants age 18 or older, including their race, ethnicity, gender and age, and analyze what happens to their...
