The Problem With Telling People What They Should Know
A journalist launches a crowd-sourced project to determine the foundations of US culture.
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A journalist launches a crowd-sourced project to determine the foundations of US culture.
However, in many of these cases the subject will not have been convicted of any crime before the program's intervening steps begin. That has Dutchess County agencies eager to implement IPVI, as it's known, facing opposition from the county Public Defender's Office. "The public defender has a mandate to protect the constitutional rights of our clients. Foremost among those rights is the presumption of innocence of the accused. The IPVI program’s request for our involvement undermines our mandated duties," said Thomas Angell, Dutchess County's public defender. Angell's office said i...