Date: Wednesdays,
December 4 & 11
(Sessions 4 & 5)
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Please be aware that session times and Zoom links vary.
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Session 4: * Click here to register with Decalogue for a CLE - https://dsl.memberclicks.net/ * December 4, 2024 - Alan Mills, JD Parole and Probation:
Time: 6:00-7:30 ET / 5:00-6:30 CT / 4:00-5:30 MT Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88205894455 |
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Session 5: December 11 - Mark Weinberg, JD & Adele Nicholas, JD Civil Rights Litigation Issues including for Registered Citizens
Time: 8:00-9:30 ET / 7:00-8:30 CT / 6:00-7:30 MT Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86747729157 |
The Facilitators:
Alan Mills, JD. , is the Executive Director of the Uptown People's Law Center, where he represents prisoners throughout the state prison system.
Alan began working at UPLC in 1979 as a law student volunteer, and has worked there in one capacity or another ever since. He made his first visit to an Illinois prison in 1982, and has been visiting prisoners ever since.
UPLC currently has six class action cases against the Illinois Department of Corrections, including cases about medical care, mental health care, and the excessive use of solitary.
Recently concluded challenging the way that the Illinois Department of Corrections and the Prisoner Review Board handled parole revocations.
Mark Weinberg, JD. , is a 1984 graduate of Yale College and a 1988 graduate of the Law School at the University of Chicago. Since 2001, he has been a solo practitioner with a focus on civil rights law. Since 2014, his main professional focus has been litigating the constitutionality of laws and policies directed at people convicted of sex offenses. Mr. Weinberg is widely regarded as an expert in the area of sex offense law and policy and regularly consults with criminal defense and civil rights attorneys throughout the country regarding such issues.
Adele Nicholas, JD. , Since 2008, Adele has been working as a civil rights advocate in Chicago and the surrounding communities.
She has successfully prosecuted many notable constitutional cases, including Koger v. Thomas Dart, in which the court found a ban on newspapers in the Cook County Jail violated the First Amendment; Norton v. City of Springfield, in which the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals found unconstitutional an ordinance banning panhandling in downtown Springfield, Illinois, and Goudy v. Evans, which required the Circuit Court of Cook County to provide prompt probable cause hearings to juvenile detainees held in custody on weekends and holidays.
Adele currently serves as the executive director of , which advocates for rational, evidence-based sex offense laws and provides education and resources to persons impacted by public conviction registries and their loved ones.
Website: https://civilrightschicago.com/