Palm Beach County Public Defender Carey Haughwout announces she won't run for reelection
Carey Haughwout has served as Palm Beach County's public defender since 2001.
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Carey Haughwout has served as Palm Beach County's public defender since 2001.
PEACE pressed local officials for specific answers to problems of affordable housing, juvenile arrests, mental illness and addiction.
PEACE pressed local officials for specific answers to problems of affordable housing, juvenile arrests, mental illness and addiction.
It wasn’t long after Matthew Reed shoplifted a $63 set of sheets from a Target in upstate New York that the coronavirus pandemic brought the world to a standstill. Instead of serving a jail sentence, he stayed at home, his case deferred more than a year, as courts closed and…
By WEIHUA LI, BETH SCHWARTZAPFEL and MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press It wasn’t long after Matthew Reed shoplifted a $63 set of sheets from a Target in upstate New York that the coronavirus pandemic brought the world to a standstill. Instead of serving a jail sentence, he stayed at home, his case deferred more than a year, as courts closed and jails nationwide dramatically reduced their populations to stop the spread of COVID-19. But the numbers have begun creeping up again as courts are back in session and the world begins returning to a modified version of normal. It’s worrying crimin...