Kewanee residents offered second chance to expunge criminal records
Susan DeVilder
The Star Courier
Mistakes made in the past can haunt people in the future, and a local legal service is offering help for residents whose past criminal record no longer reflects their current life.
“We have worked with clients who maybe have made a mistake when they were younger and are now ready to move past that,” said Kevin Hempy, an equal justice works fellow with Prairie State Legal Services.
PSLS, in collaboration with the Public Interest Law Initiative, is announcing 2021 Virtual Expungement Clinics in Henry County. The clinics will provide free legal services to income-eligible individuals with old criminal records. The goal of the program is to assist community members struggling to access employment or housing as a result of criminal records that are eligible to be expunged or even sealed.
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Mike Holmes is Leo High School s fifth recipient of the Leo Lions Legacy Award. (Leo High School)
Previous Legacy Dinners to raise important scholarship monies were held at the Four Seasons Hotel; (left to right) Leo President Dan McGrath 68, Principal Shaka Rawls 93, William Conlon 63, Michael Holmes 76, Tom Owens 54 and Andrew McKenna 47. (Steve Capers)
Mike Holmes speaks at last year s event; This year s event will be live-streamed Tuesday at 6 p.m.: www.pjhchicago.com/leo-scholarship-benefit (Steve Capers)
Michael Holmes is Leo High School Chicago s fifth recipient of the Leo Lions Legacy Award, which recognizes exceptional service to Leo High School and the greater Chicago community, announced school President Dan McGrath.
Return to Freedom Sues BLM Over Plan to Surgically Sterilize Wild Mares
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LOMPOC, Calif., Dec. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation today filed suit in federal court in California to halt a Bureau of Land Management plan to surgically sterilize wild mares using a procedure that is dangerous, inhumane, and an unnecessary risk especially when proven, well-studied and previously utilized modes of alternative fertility control exist.
Neda DeMayo, founder and president of RTF, a national nonprofit advocacy organization, said BLM s plan ignores the spirit and intent of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, in which Congress explicitly expressed that BLM must protect wild horses from capture, branding, harassment or death. Under BLM s plan, the lives of wild mares would be placed at risk by the very federal agency charged with making decisions benefitting wild horses and burros on behalf of th