Nonprofit helped 28 new clients in Freeport in 2020
Todd McKenna
Special to The Journal-Standard
FREEPORT Often people find themselves in situations that require legal assistance, but attorney fees can be expensive and so they feel helpless to do anything.
Prairie State Legal Services aims to do something to help. For more than 40 years locally, attorneys associated with the nonprofit agency have been providing free legal help to those who qualify. We handle various legal issues but criminal defense is something we don t do, said Kira Devin, staff attorney in the Rockford office. We mostly do civil cases such as to help them not get evicted and victims of fraud and others.