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NYC and Ontario #23

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@marissashey marissashey commented Jun 2, 2020 •
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Added:

  • Emergency Release Fund (NYC)
  • Black Legal Action Centre (Ontario)
  • a notice about the nature of bail in Canada--sometimes cash deposits are required, but other times a surety is.

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Add the Emergency Release Fund under "New York City"
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"In response to COVID-19, the Emergency Release Fund has expanded their mission to raise and post bail for pretrial medically vulnerable individuals and anyone who identifies as LGBTQ. As of May 26th, 2020, we have freed 160 people and paid over $900k in bail funds." (https://emergencyreleasefund.com/)
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Added the Black Legal Action Centre under Canada > Ontario
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From their website: "We are a non-profit community legal clinic that provides free legal services for low or no income Black residents of Ontario."
@marissashey marissashey changed the title Add the Emergency Release Fund under "New York City" NYC and Ontario Jun 3, 2020
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Added a disclosure notice relevant to the Canadian resources on this …
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This may not be well known, so I think it is an important distinction that Canadian bail sometimes relies on sureties (people who pledge to supervise the arrested while they are on bail), not cash.
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This may not be well known, so I think it is an important distinction that Canadian bail sometimes relies on sureties (people who pledge to supervise the arrested while they are on bail), not cash.
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Formatting of the disclosure
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Merge branch 'master' into patch-1
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