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Know Your Rights Training in Case of ICE Raids
Know Your Rights Training in Case of ICE Raids for Service Providers WHAT: The Legal Aid Justice Center is organizing a “Know your Rights” presentation for service providers in Northern Virginia in response to a recent announcement of large-scale ICE raids in the DMV region. Although President Trump cancelled the raids hours before they were […]
Read moreVirginia Schools Need Support Staff, Not More Police
Virginia Schools Need Investment in Support Staff—Not More School Resource Officers Yesterday, Governor Northam announced over $3.47 million in School Resource Officer (SRO) incentive grants to 53 localities across the Commonwealth. The funding will allow school divisions to add more SROs to Virginia’s K-12 public schools, increasing the number of SROs in Virginia by […]
Read more6 Things To Know About Driver’s License Suspensions
UPDATED 6 Things To Know Right Now about the recent Virginia budget amendment to temporarily halt driver’s license suspensions for unpaid court debt: 1. The budget amendment should lift current driver’s license suspensions for unpaid or delinquent court debt, and will prevent future such suspensions beginning July 1, 2019 and lasting until June 30, […]
Read moreContinuing Problems at Fluvanna Women’s Prison
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Shannon Ellis, Attorney Legal Aid Justice Center 434-529-1815 shannon@justice4all.org WOMAN PRISONER AT FLUVANNA SEEKS RELIEF FROM LIFE-THREATENING MEDICATION FAILURES Charlottesville, Va., April 30, 2019 — A woman incarcerated at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women (FCCW) filed a motion today in federal court seeking relief from the prison’s repeated, life-threatening mismanagement […]
Read more4th Circuit: No Remedy for ICE Abuses
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Hallie Ryan, Managing Attorney, 703-226-3426, hallie@justice4all.org Tim Wallace, Dir. of Development, 434-529-1853, twallace@justice4all.org Fourth Circuit: If ICE agents break into your house illegally, you have no remedy Falls Church, Va., April 26, 2019 — Today a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that ICE […]
Read moreVA AG Undermines License Suspension Relief Efforts
April 24, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Angela Ciolfi, Executive Director, 434-529-1810, angela@justice4all.org VIRGINIA OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL UNDERMINES CRITICAL OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE DRIVER’S LICENSE SUSPENSION RELIEF PERMANENT Charlottesville, VA—Yesterday, the Attorney General and Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner filed a motion to delay or prematurely end the litigation in Stinnie v. Holcomb, […]
Read moreMixed 4th Circuit Decision on ICE Transfers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Becky Wolozin, Attorney, 703-720-5606, becky@justice4all.org Tim Wallace, Dir. of Development, 434-529-1853, twallace@justice4all.org 4th Circuit decision on ICE transfers upholds court oversight but fails families Falls Church, Va., April 16, 2019 — Today the 4th Circuit issued a decision in Reyna v. Hott, a case challenging ICE’s practice of transferring detained parents across the country […]
Read moreDriver’s Licenses Reinstated for Thousands
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 3, 2019 LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER Contact: Amy Woolard, 434-529-1846, amy@justice4all.org BUDGET AMENDMENT REINSTATING DRIVER’S LICENSES FOR THOUSANDS OF VIRGINIANS PASSES Today the General Assembly rose to a tremendous occasion and passed a budget amendment that brings fairness and justice to the lives of hundreds of thousands of Virginians whose driver’s […]
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