AGENDA Executive Session: *FY 2020 Compensation Proposal – Discussion of Chief Counsel and Manager Salaries Open Session: FY 2020 Compensation Proposal – Committee Vote on Chief Counsel and Manager Salaries […]
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Prosecutors and public defenders have stressful jobs, and both are frequently placed face-to-face with the trauma that inevitably surfaces when working in the criminal justice system. But when it comes […]
Committee for Public Counsel Services Youth Advocacy Division leaders toured a Bay State child welfare and juvenile justice center with an international guest and showcased some model residential and educational programming for […]
Legislation geared toward keeping kids out of the school-to-prison pipeline by prohibiting criminal proceedings against juvenile students for “disturbing a school assembly” based on in-school conduct must be applied retroactively […]
The Department of Children and Families has recently moved some of its field offices from city centers to areas that are not as accessible to parents who have lost custody of […]
Mona Igram, the attorney in charge of the Committee for Public Counsel Services’ Youth Advocacy Division office in Lowell, has been honored with the Lawrence Bar Association’s Leadership Award. The […]
Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants and Trial Court Chief Justice Paula M. Carey wrote a letter to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), urging the federal […]
The Mental Health Litigation Division (MHLD) of the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) is now accepting applications to its Fall 2019 Civil Commitment Certification Training. In Massachusetts, people experiencing […]
The CPCS Mental Health Litigation Division is now accepting applications for an Appellate Certification Training taking place this October. The training will take place in Worcester over the course of […]
In a major decision (Pembroke Hospital v. D.L. (May 23, 2019)) the SJC ruled that when a petition for commitment under Chapter 123 is denied, the respondent cannot be held […]
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