Where to find BALT in January
BALT’s Community Lawyer will be providing free warrant recall and expungement services at the following events:
BALT’s Community Lawyer will be providing free warrant recall and expungement services at the following events:
We will be taking a brief winter break in December so we can catch up on warrant recalls and expungements for existing clients. If you do a loved one are seeking free legal services, please feel free to reach out to be connected to one of our partners.
Thank you for helping us build capacity and we apologize for any inconvenience. We look forward to seeing you in 2025!
BALT’s Community Lawyer will be providing free warrant recall and expungement services at the following events:
BALT’s Community Lawyer will be providing free warrant recall and expungement services at the following events:
BALT’s Community Lawyer will be providing free warrant recall and expungement services at the following events:
BALT is taking a break from community clinics in the month of August to catch up on our current clients. Thank you for your understanding and we will see you back in the community in September.
BALT’s Community Lawyer will be providing free warrant recall and expungement services at the following events:
Join us on May 11th at 7:00 for Lawyer Up! We will be talking expungements with JOTF and Landon White, Esq. Join in on Zoom or watch live (with captions!) on our Facebook.
Click here for the zoom link! See you on Wednesday.
Baltimore Action Legal Team and Out For Justice present, Lawyer Up! Lawyer Up! is a guide to navigating systems that community members may encounter when dealing with the Justice System.
Lawyer Up! is a monthly workshop by the community, for the community. This session focuses on parole and probation and was held via Zoom on 4/13/22.
For this session, we are joined by Antoin Quarels, Executive Director of H.O.P.E., Walter Nolley, Executive Deputy Director at Division of Parole and Probation, and Kaeshawn Stweart, Victims Assistance Specialist at the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services Domestic Violence Unit.
Out for Justice and Baltimore Action Legal Team are excited to present Lawyer Up!
Our first session is Thursday, March 10 at 7 p.m. via Zoom. Lawyer Up! is a monthly guide to navigating systems that community members may encounter when dealing with the Justice System. This month’s workshop is focused on lawyer/client relationships and ethics with guest speakers Attorney Brandon Burrell Esq.,University of Baltimore law Prof. Robert Rubinson, and legal practitioner Qiana Johnson. You can join the event via https://bit.ly/Lawyer-Up. Hope to see you there!
H.O.P.E. and CPP will be hosting their annual back to school event at the intersection of the Sandtown-Winchester, Upton, and Madison Park neighborhoods and have asked BALT to provide expungement resources.
If your case qualifies for an expungement, we can help jumpstart the process.
Hope to see you there!
BALT, with the support of Maryland Legal Aid, is offering a free expungement training. The training covers Maryland criminal record expungement law, expungement filing and Court process, and expungement mistakes and how to avoid them. The training is open to attorneys and legal workers.
Register here!
The Board of Estimates will host the Fiscal Year 2022 Preliminary Budget Presentation and Annual Taxpayers’ Night on Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these events will be hosted online.
Beginning at 6:00pm, Mayor Brandon M. Scott, City Council President Nick Mosby, Comptroller Bill Henry, City Solicitor Jim Shea, and Acting Director of Public Works Matthew W. Garbark will hear a brief presentation on the Fiscal 2022 Preliminary Budget Plan from Henry Raymond, the Director of the Department of Finance. Public testimony will begin after the presentation and continue until all participants signed up to testify have been heard. The Fiscal 2022 Preliminary Budget Plan was introduced to the Board of Estimates on April 7, 2021.
Residents can join this event by:
Joining the virtual meeting at bit.ly/FY22BOETN, password Taxpayers. You will be required to download Webex, which may take a few minutes.
Dialing-in to 408-418-9388. Use access code 129 643 5978.
Streaming CharmTV’s cable channel, Channel 25/1085HD, and online here.
Residents can sign up to give testimony at the event in the form below. Testimony is limited to two minutes per speaker and only available to those joining through the virtual meeting. The Board of Estimates will all accept public testimony through April 30, 2021, via the form below, email (Taxpayernight@baltimorecity.gov) or voicemail, 410-396-8873.
Source: https://bbmr.baltimorecity.gov/fiscal-2022-virtual-taxpayers-night-0
Defending Baltimore Black Activists and the Black Community: Responding to Police and FBI Surveillance
Join us to learn about, and develop a strategy, to protect the Black Community and Black Activists from continued police oppression and surveillance!
This event will include speakers, and small group discussions of the issues.
Our plenary presenters are:
Barbara Arnwine, Executive Director of the Transformative Justice Coalition and host of Igniting Change on WOL.
Eddie Conway, Senior Producer at the Real News, former political prisoner, and Black Panther.
Lawrence Grandpre, Director of Research, Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS)
Ray Winbush, Director, Institute for Urban Research, Morgan State University
Refreshments will be served
The vast majority of seniors in prison, many who have been in prison for decades, are routinely denied parole and compassionate release by the state. They are often denied release even though they pose no threat to the public.
Join Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign in showing support and solidarity with these folks. We’ll provide all the materials and a quick “how to” for writing to people in prison. We will also write to governors and parole boards who hold the power to intervene in individual cases, and learn how mass incarceration affects prisoners in their '60s, '70s, and '80s.
For more information: Visit the event’s facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1200187903481218/
You’re invited to reconnect or to meet us for the first time at BALT's upcoming gathering at Next Phaze Cafe. On Thursday, March 21, please join us from 5-8 pm for light fare and complimentary beer and wine. RSVP by March 18, 2019.
A community conversation on the Baltimore Consent Decree--what it is, what led up to it, and what happens next. StayUp News is working with Morgan State University to conduct a community survey to gauge residents' current satisfaction with the Baltimore Police Department. The event is an opportunity to discuss community relations, police accountability, and how to get involved with the survey process. At this event, folks will learn about how to become survey gatherers and get paid $15 per survey to collect community responses.
This event is FREE & Open to the public.
More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/446491465882149/
The community will have the opportunity to pose questions to the nominee.
The Baltimore Police Department is inviting feedback on their new policy on sexual assault, until September 15. It is urgent that survivor's voices are heard. FORCE is hosting this forum to provide space for us as victim-survivors to give feedback and hear one another's thoughts and concerns. Representatives from the SART team and Department of Justice will be there to provide support and advocacy.
You can also review the draft policy and submit comments as an individual here: https://www.baltimorepolice.org/708-draft-rape-and-sexual-assault.
For more information, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/427863064403578/?notif_t=plan_user_invited¬if_id=1535542397219813
The Maryland Office of the Public Defender is having an expungement event on July 25, 2018. The event will be held at American Brewery, 1701 N. Gay Street, Baltimore, MD 21213 (on the 15 & 47 bus lines).
For more information, contact: Mary-Denise Davis at mdavis2@opd.state.md.us
The Independent Monitor is hosting its second quarterly community report forum at the Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, 600 South Conkling Street, Baltimore MD 21224.
Come to hear and discuss: