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Office of the Public Defender

At a heated meeting Thursday, the Juvenile Justice Reform Council voted to recommend that the legislature abolish the practice of automatically charging minors in…

The Office of the Public Defender issued a call Monday for the Ocean City Police Department to implement body-worn cameras following a series of…

A federal judge ruled Wednesday to unseal an expert report detailing dozens of instances of misconduct and discriminatory practices perpetrated by officers in the…

Last week Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) issued a temporary moratorium on prison visits in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prisoners’ rights…