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☆ US Justice Department moves for fines-and-fees reform, backs off bail issue
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Hassan Kanu | Thomson Reuters | Hassan Kanu Writes About Access To Justice | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
The Justice Department’s April 20 letter includes guidance for state and local police, prosecutors, judges and probation officers. Joanna Weiss, co-director of the Fines and Fees Justice Center, told me that the DOJ's voice is critical on these issues. The earlier memo included a section that laid out the principle that courts must not use bail practices that incarcerate people solely because they can’t afford a fee. The Justice Department didn't address my specific questions about why the section on bail was nixed. Lauren Jones, legal director at the National Center for Access to Justice, told me that there's clear overlap between cash bail practices and justice system fees.
☆ Seven years after Ferguson investigation, Missouri police still resist reforms
  + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Hassan Kanu | Thomson Reuters | Hassan Kanu Writes About Access To Justice | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +8 min
(Reuters) - The shooting death of teenager Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer prompted the U.S. Justice Department's most significant investigation of policing practices since the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement. The DOJ also pointed out that “police departments in surrounding municipalities and the County” have practices similar to Ferguson, although that issue was “beyond the scope” of the investigation. In fact, federal officials even considered opening another investigation of the St. Louis police department for similar problems, Reuters reported in October 2020. Ferguson officials expressed concerns that the reforms required to stop exploitative policing in their city would “cripple city finances,” Reuters reported in March 2016. (A measure to institute a modest property tax increase to fund the reforms didn't get the required two-thirds majority vote.)
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