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During their senior year as computer science majors at the University of Chicago in 2019, Leslie Jones-Dove and Devshi Mehrotra, now both 24, partnered on a class project requiring them to generate a business idea involving technology and develop it throughout the quarter. After deciding they wanted to find a way to address the crisis of underfunded and overworked public defenders, they reached out to the Cook County, Illinois, public defender s office to see how they could potentially be of help. ....
Surrounded by supporters on Wednesday, Alecia Nelson stood quietly in tears just before she walked inside the Richmond Police Department’s 3rd Precinct and filed a formal complaint against an officer ....
Surrounded by supporters on Wednesday, Alecia Nelson stood quietly in tears just before she walked inside the Richmond Police Department’s 3rd Precinct and filed a formal complaint against an officer ....
: FILE PHOTO: Richmond City Hall (Crixell Matthews/VPM) Despite the pandemic and resulting economic recession, Richmond City Council passed a $774 million budget for FY2022 that includes pay raises for employees. The budget first presented by Mayor Levar Stoney in March was lean. While it maintained funding for the city’s essential services and departments, it was $18 million lighter than last year. Budget officials said that was due to declining meals, admissions and lodging tax revenues. “The ongoing pandemic has decimated the finances of cities and states alike, and the City of Richmond is no exception,” Stoney said at the time. “To be sure, this is a Pandemic-era Budget, and city tax revenue projections are still significantly short of what we projected at this time last year.” ....
The Marsh Manchester Courts Building in South Richmond. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News) Richmond City Council has agreed to start supplementing the salaries of lawyers in the city’s Public Defender’s office. They’ve set aside nearly $600,000 in this year’s budget roughly half the amount the office asked for. Public defenders, who represent people who can’t afford a lawyer, have urged the city to help pay their salaries for years. The state of Virginia pays the salaries of prosecutors in Commonwealth Attorney offices as well as attorneys in public defender offices. But Richmond, like many other Virginia cities, supplements the salaries of prosecutors. ....