USSC Review 4 Juvenile Lifers
Finally, our nation’s large population of under age juveniles (now grown men and most well into middle age) who were once sentenced to life in prison – some younger than 13 years old –...
HooverLaw Memos Blog
Friday's Ed Law Lunch Meetup With Jennfer Barmon, Esq.
You shoulda been there! On June 12th Jennifer Barmon, Esq., Maryland’s powerhouse attorney with the Office of Public Defender and expert in all all things education and juvenile law related, joined us Friday for our monthly meeting...
New Best Bud 4 College Students
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has aggressively taken on a significant number of highly predatory, unethical business groups disguised as colleges and post high school training centers and only too eager to rip off...
No Prom 4U2! High School Couple Post Pre-Prom AirRifle Pic's Get Suspended …
When a youg Massachusetts high school couple recently posted their pre-prom photo shoot on FB – all dressed up for their big night and holding realistic looking assault airsoft rifles, instead of that special...
Kids Suffer Too! Washington: Update/Reauthorize JJDPA, Please!
The shameful legislative ice age we are all living in affects children and teens as much as — or, perhaps, even more so than — adults. Since 1974, the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention...
What a White House Endorsement Means for Ending Zero Tolerance Policy
The Obama administration issued a series of guidelines this Wednesday calling for school systems to relax their harsh disciplinary measures that often introduce the criminal justice system into the lives of students, effectively widening...
Zero Tolerance Does Not Make Schools Safer: Report
Does zero tolerance achieve its intended effect?
School District With Shocking Record Revises Zero Tolerance Policy
Florida’s Boward County Public Schools had the highest arrest record among districts in the state. Now, it’s following the lead of other school districts around the country and revising its zero tolerance policy. Read...
MSBA Bar Bulletin: Death Knell to Zero Tolerance
Patrick Hoover and former associate Bryan Utter of HooverLaw wrote about zero tolerance in the Maryland State Bar Association’s November 2013 edition of the Bar Bulletin. Read the full article here.
For every dollar PG spends on a special ed student, Howard spends $3
In addition to the publicly available school district budgets for 2013, the Maryland State Department of Education has also released data on the number of students receiving of special education services. It should come...